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Historian | NYT best-selling author | UVa Prof. | Now writing "A SHADOW OVER THE WORLD: FDR, the Rise of Fascism, and America's Road to WW2.” | American Academy in Berlin 2025
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Woah 🔥!
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Well… the jury is still out on whether we beat the Confederates and the Nazis! They seem to be thriving tbh
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Sam, this Quincy brief you joined is non-sensical. It proposes Trump’s global grift over the “system” we’ve got now. I get you want an end to imperial overstretch. But why not envision that within intl law? Instead you embrace Trumpian nihilism and say “hey let’s give it a try! Silver lining!” Sad!
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Can confirm
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Awesome!!
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The face that launched 11,000 emails
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FDR called them “economic royalists” which rolls a little better than “imperialist clique.” Note that Wilkerson in this essay praises FDR and New Deal for antifascist work.
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Don’t forget Ike’s “eight millionaires and a plumber!” (The plumber quit after a few months)
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Yes you’re right I fear. I expect things to get worse. And the ongoing war is likely now to end in a “defeat” for US interests as understood in postwar liberal terms. And a defeat in war will exacerbate the fascist tendencies. Long haul ahead. Very long. A generation.
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I mean, in a meta sense we are in a global war and have been since 9/11. Don’t look for narratives like “Pearl Harbor to Berlin” etc etc. But the war is very real despite having been cleverly disguised from the public for a long time.
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A new generation of leaders is crucial, leaders who understand that *it will get worse before it gets better* and who will not lose faith in the darkest hours. These will be young people, not the gerontocracy of the Dems.
We are in 1940 now. A long struggle lies ahead. But victory is possible. End/
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mass mobilization premised on
total resistance to Vichyites;
a compelling vision of economic justice;
an end to structural racism, sexism, and ongoing bogus moral “panics;”
Significant shift in foreign policy toward restraint, despite the agonizing consequences. 6/