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# 2016-11-14 Trump

I need to start another of these link collection posts.

#Politics

[America is facing an epistemic crisis](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/2/16588964/america-epistemic-crisis): “an increasingly large chunk of Americans believes a whole bunch of crazy things, and it is warping our politics. […] wh...

[4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump](https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-rise-of-trump-624e7cb798cb#.gy75qh8wa). “Like the Hollywood heroes, right and left have been competing to become this new radical anti-/statu...

[This Political Theorist Predicted the Rise of Trumpism. His Name Was Hunter S. Thompson.](https://www.thenation.com/article/this-political-theorist-predicted-the-rise-of-trumpism-his-name-was-hunter-s-thompson/) “As Thompson presciently wrote in t...

[Authoritarianism and Post-Truth Politics](https://niskanencenter.org/blog/authoritarianism-post-truth-politics/). “[...] insisting on the difference between truth and lies is itself a part of the defense of freedom. Orwell, Arendt, and Havel teach...

[You Are Still Crying Wolf](http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wolf/). A long piece debunking the myth that Trump is a racist. He’s terrible for different reasons.

[It’s not elitism, but its absence](http://peterstrempel.com/index.php/politics/its-not-elitism-but-its-absence/). “[...] Brexit and Trump come as terrible reminders that the comfortably well-off are too removed from the bases of their own comfor...

[What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class](https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class). “\{WWC white working class\} men aren’t interested in working at McDonald’s for $15 per hour inste...

[Donald Trump Will Dramatically Realign America’s Political Parties](http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/11/why-democrats-should-abandon-angry-working-class-whites/). “More and more, the downscale Republican voters felt they were being betrayed by t...

[Trump, the GOP, and the Fall](http://whatever.scalzi.com/2016/10/11/trump-the-gop-and-the-fall/). Hah, I think he’s right: Trump is not the problem. He is the symptom. The actual problem is that the Republicans made it possible with their fundamen...

[Autocracy: Rules for Survival](http://www2.nybooks.com/daily/s3/nov/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival.html). “I have lived in autocracies most of my life, and have spent much of my career writing about Vladimir Putin’s Russia. I hav...

[A madman has been given the keys to the surveillance state](https://boingboing.net/tag/one-click-away-from-totalitarianism).

[Unnecessariat](https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/). “Here’s the thing: from where I live, the world has drifted away. We aren’t precarious, we’re unnecessary. The money has [gone to the top](http://apps.urban.org/featu...

[Goodbye, Cold War](https://nplusonemag.com/issue-30/politics/goodbye-cold-war/). “Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump marked the return of the repressed: the reemergence of two varieties of popular politics that were common until the 1940s but were ev...

[When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig](https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/when-its-too-late-to-stop-fascism-according-to-stefan-zweig). “I wonder how far along the scale of moral degeneration Zweig would judge Am...

[The Prophecies of Q](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/): “QAnon is emblematic of modern America’s susceptibility to conspiracy theories, and its enthusiasm for them. But it is also...

[What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’?](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/technology/what-if-facebook-is-the-real-silent-majority.html) «The conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has gotten 56 million total interactions on his Facebook...

[Dear news media, stop covering the US as if it’s a democracy](https://thecorrespondent.com/698/dear-news-media-stop-covering-the-us-as-if-its-a-democracy/92407662996-9d2bd8a6): «Liberties aren’t eliminated, they are restricted and violated – ...

[The Scalzi Endorsement: Joe Biden](https://whatever.scalzi.com/2020/10/06/the-scalzi-endorsement-joe-biden/): «We get to decide whether we will get four more years of corruption, of white supremacy, of self-dealing and of, literally, plague… or a...

[So What About That (Self)-Coup?](https://zeynep.substack.com/p/so-what-about-that-self-coup): «This clearly wasn’t just politics as usual, and not because of the mob that took over the Capitol. This was a trial run for a self-coup that could very...

The age of Trump comes to an end but the a new age of disinformation has only just begun. Like the mysticism invading the Roman Empire in Russel’s view of the History of Western Philosophy, or Gibson’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but al...

> educators must be explicit about the ethical frameworks and daily practices of truth-seeking institutions such as science, scholarship, and journalism. Social-media platforms enact values that are firmly grounded in beliefs about individualism, cap...

Radicalisation everywhere.

> What the American left needs now is allegiance, not allyship. It must abandon any imagined fantasies about the sanctity of governmental institutions that long ago gave up any claim to legitimacy. Stack the supreme court, end the filibuster, make Wa...

Reap what you sow in the Supreme Court:

> In the last four years, a reliably Republican majority on the high court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, has embarked on a remarkable spree against history and reality itself, ignoring or eliding facts in decisions involving [school prayer](htt...