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Friday Nite Videos | July 11, 2023

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Is Donald Trump a Fascist? | Robert Reich. This Is Not a Song, It's an Outburst: Or, the Establishment Blues. We Went To a Trump Rally: What We Heard. Dark Winds Season 2. The High Schooler Who Solved a Prime Number Theorem.

Strategy in the Time of MAGA: Block and Build

Max Elbaum Common Dreams
A GOP presidential and congressional win in 2024 would bring a national abortion ban, national right to work law; more tax cuts for the rich; an eliminationist program for transgender people; Jim Crow 2; a new McCarthyism and COINTELPRO for the left.

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The Writers Who Went Undercover To Show America Its Ugly Side

Samuel G. Freedman The Atlantic
In the 1940s, a series of books tried to use the conventions of detective fiction to expose the degree of prejudice in postwar America. Their books — along with Sinatra’s song and film; Richard Wright’s memoir, coincided with a surge of activism.

A Patriot’s Fourth of July

Victor Grossman Berlin Bulletin #213
The world needs millions to join in this fight, this fight back! In the United States, there have been models enough of genuine patriots. There is a need for U.S. patriots who are at the same time “world patriots.”

Ultra Violence

Nelson Lichtenstein Dissent
Rachel Maddow’s podcast tells the story of American Nazis in the 1940s. But the era’s real and lasting authoritarian danger came from the spectacular growth of a national security state.
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