i was just told in a meeting that vox will not pay my legal fees if i throw a sandwich at the national guard, my voice is being silenced
Zack Beauchamp
@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social
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Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy.
Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic — available for purchase now!
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/zack-beauchamp/the-reactionary-spirit/9781541704411/?lens=
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The deep irony is the insistence that everything is class politics, despite the overwhelming evidence against such a thing, is proof that ideas have independent causal force. People read Marx and it broke their brains!
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Indeed, I talk about that point a lot in the Hungary chapter — how Orbán manufactured a reactionary politics absent a bottom-up political backlash
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I think it's very good, but my basic argument was that it overemphasized the importance of institutional design and under-emphasized the importance of underlying social conflict in causing democratic backsliding.
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It’s Our Fault
On MANGO’s, Coconuts, and the Responsibility of a Powerless Left.
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This is no great insight, but actually one of the cardinal flaws in the Marxian tradition
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Washington National*. It's small enough that it's easy to get through, big enough that it flies to all sorts of different places, and has the best pound-for-pound diversity of high-quality food and drink of any airport in the country.
*DC natives know why we don't call it Reagan
Actually, you know what? Let’s stop complaining for a second. QT this with a GOOD airport. Defend that title as much or as little as you like. But let’s hear about airports that don’t suck.
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The American press and public really need to figure out how to simply dismiss Trump's pretextual claims for authoritarian attacks and then resist the attack itself, not debate the claim. We have spent months asking "but is the Ivy League really antisemitic?" and now "but is DC really crime-ridden?"
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I've wondered for a long time how Jewish Israelis are reckoning with the overwhelming evidence that their government is committing atrocities in Gaza. This interview with a leading Israeli pollster was really clarifying www.vox.com/politics/457...
What Israelis actually think about starvation in Gaza
Israelis want to end the war — but not out of concern for Gazan suffering.
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Well explained. I’m currently reading @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social’s The Reactionary Spirit. It is an edifying exposé on the death of the old GOP and its embrace of MAGA’s openly racist, neo-Jim Crow agenda as well as its global ramifications.
Here’s an article, but the book is well worth reading.
Zack Beauchamp, author of 'The Reactionary Spirit,' on the Mideast and what's fueling anti-democratic politics
"Ultimately, in order to destroy democracy, you need to win an election first," warns Zack Beauchamp, journalist and author of "The Reactionary Spirit," which examines what's fueling anti-democratic p...
