Link: “No Magic Man” on Media Madness

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No Magic Man

In today’s link, we visit my Media Madness blog for a short essay mildly chiding lefty writer Luke O’Neil for a careless bit of Twitter analysis that accidentally feeds into a larger, and incorrect narrative about the importance of Trump to the American fascist movement inside the GOP going forward. Along the way we touch on the relationship between masculine authority and fascism, and the various reactionary forces in American politics that aren’t going anywhere just because Trump lost an election.

 

“The plain truth of it is that Trump didn’t exploit a choose-your-own-adventure media environment to create a purely astroturfed far-right “independent” media megaphone spitting out fascist ideology every waking hour of the day, that was reactionary vampire billionaires like Bob Mercer. Nor did Trump spend every election since Nixon lost to Kennedy aggressively courting white voters with nativist, white supremacist and explicitly fascist ideas and ideology, that was the larger Republican Party and ghouls like Pat Buchanan. With or without Trump, the Proud Boys aren’t going anywhere, the militias aren’t going anywhere and the Alex Jones-fueled larger reactionary conspiracy movement isn’t going anywhere. At the end of the day, Donald Trump, who is again a man who doesn’t know how to close an umbrella, was just an actor, playing Führer for this larger network of rich American fascists and reactionaries. They can and will get a new one; and in the meantime, they’ll keep riling up the seventy-five or so million folks who knowingly pulled the lever for Downmarket Mussolini into something that looks a lot like a more violent, more reactionary and more dangerous version of the Tea Party.”

 

Does it really matter if Tom Cotton f*cks? Find out in “No Magic Man” by clicking on the title line or the image below.

 

No Magic Man