ganz is one of the two writers (along with eric levitz) I’ve been reading a lot of this year because they do a good job of synthesizing the political moment (in very different ways and from different angles) https://twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1380890100901552128

a thing this has me thinking about is why it “didn’t happen here” in the 30s, and:
1. “it” did, in a regionalized way — ganz talks about “anti-semitic anti-blackness” as a political force, and @jbouie has done a really good job of detailing how that describes jim crow politics

1(cont.). as a sort of all-encompassing conspiratorial demagoguery of black people (and jews! the kkk didn’t love the jews)
2. it stayed regionalized because of a weird accident unique to american political history that aligned the demagogues with the liberal party

but I really do like bouie’s framing of the last 60 years of conservatism as the nationalization of the southern style of politics, which doesn’t so much distance modern politics from european fascism as recontextualize jim crow politics as a strain of fascism

sorry about this thread. one of the bad ways twitter breaks brains is it makes you think you can and should pursue conversations with various public intellectuals whose ideas you like, so you end up sharing your thoughts about their ideas out loud to no one in particular