#Authoritarianism

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

The Covid pandemic was a litmus test.This was THE moment in several generations to recognize the treacherous signs of groupthink and authoritarianism.How did you fare? When history came knocking, telling

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) The Spirit of Liberty Walker asksSpoiler: A surprising number of people prefer a “strongman” to rule-of-law democracy.Let's start with a definition of democracy.I like Lincoln's: “A majority held in

Chawanna

DrChaeEd

I’ve been told many times that I “parent too much” or “too hard,” but then they’re wondering how our children think the way they do, operate how they do...It was

Shahrar Ali

ShahrarAli

TODAY is the final day of voting! If you don't use you voice or vote you can't complain about business as usual - even in our own party. "Change is

Matt Glassman

MattGlassman312

The weird thing about Barr is that his intellectual positions about the executive branch are extreme but not outrageous/unique, but his approach to public politics is so combative, contemptuous and

Zachary D. Carter

zachdcarter

Larry, let's talk.https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1319317535435665409 It is a mistake to think of The General Theory as a set of policy prescriptions. There are some in there, of course. Among other things, Keynes

John M. Talmadge, MD

JohnMTalmadgeMD

1/ #Presidementia #TrumpDementiaSyndrome #UNFIT - Watching the movie Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump. Film opens w/ Drs. Gartner, Dodes, Durvasala, & Frank. Stark, unflinching account of malignant narcissism, gaslighting.

David Roberts

drvolts

Welp, @EricLevitz has precisely captured my thoughts. America's problems are structural, not tied to Trump, and it's difficult to see how even a Biden victory would slow the downward spiral.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/rn

Dan Friedman

dfriedman33

Meadows says the Trump administration is readying a new executive order to expand the federal takeover of cities based on alleged lawlessness: "Attorney General Barr is weighing in on that

Dan L-K, panelist @ #ArCONa Sunday 4/25

2ndLevelBard

While we're all talking and thinking about how police violence is reported in the media, a few PSAs from your local descriptivist editor.1) "Passive tense" isn't a thing in English.

Halil Gurhanli

halilgurhanli

Happy to announce the publication and public examination of my dissertation titled "Beyond Populism: From Scholarship to Politics in “New” Turkey."It's available at http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-51-6486-5 and the defense

Marcus Board Jr.

ProfMBJr

With respect to the findings, I need to highlight a really important disagreement with this particular point on ideology.Black people are *extremely* sophisticated political thinkers, even when carrying problematic ideological

Judianna

Judianna

Saw a comment this morning on another platform. I'm saddened to say that I can see his point: Everyone who is expecting mass resistance to Biden's socialist authoritarianism is going

Tahar

laseptiemewilay

I’ve seen a couple of threads on competitive authoritarianism these last few days & I want, in a regular language, to flesh out what it really means without citing the

Mark Greene

RemakingManhood

It’s not “hypocrisy” for McConnell to rush through Trump’s nominee for SCOTUS with an election in 40 days. It’s proof of his power to dominate us all. Fascists prove their

Dave Zirin

EdgeofSports

Don't fall for what will be horrible coverage about ACB's family, faith, career or other bullshit. This is about jamming a Supreme Court justice on the bench to steal an