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im sure academics mean something particular by it that i dont understand but its puzzling to me when they declare the absence of "mass politics" when the last year saw

I think the important thing to understand about antisemitism as a political factor is that its not coterminous with "Jew hatred", it's a particular type of obsessive preoccupation and fantasy

Yeah well look a minority elected Trump, an obvious moron, and majorities rejected him twice. I think there's proof of concept right there. Not to mention there are very few

There's also a kind of anti-respectability politics, which views everything that appeals to conventional people as either hopelessly naive and dowdy or thoroughly hypocritical, and sometimes as both Usually this

I don't want to wade back into the fascism debate again, but I think there several features of Trump's politics and presidency that have totalitarian resonance. I don't think he

The country is going through a material crisis, and its intellectuals have to convert it into a symbolic crisis in order to have anything to say In a way this

I think focusing too much on the presence of ideological purity is not necessarily enlightening when looking for signs of fascism, which emerges out of a demimonde of failed elites,