How We Can Defend Ourselves in the New Trump Era
“BF: Yes, we have faced this in the past. Speaking from my own personal experience, in 2014, I and some other people started really raising the hell about the danger of right-wing A style of politics that involves an effort to mobilize “the people” into a social or political movement around some form of anti-elitism. Such movements can be egalitarian or authoritarian, inclusive or exclusionary, forward-looking or fixated on a romanticized image of the past. Learn more . There were groups that have been raising this for years, there’s the Political Research Associates and the Anti-Klan Network and so on. But in my own experience, I really started to see the danger, and I was confronted continuously with denial: ‘Oh, you’re exaggerating things. The real danger is The economic, social, and political position that centers individual freedom, undergirded by a weak government and unfettered, free-market capitalism. Learn more ,’ and ‘You’re distracting people.’”