Showing posts with label communism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communism. Show all posts
Saturday, September 26, 2026
Saturday, September 12, 2026
‘Dangerous, radical and frankly weird’: How Republicans used their Dallas convention to frame up the midterms - POLITICO
In an election that is likely to be decided over the cost of living, Republicans are doing everything they can to paint their Democratic opponents as radicals...
Monday, September 7, 2026
Sunday, September 6, 2026
Auchter's Art: Correctly defining socialism
Sure, implementing Medicare-for-all will be disruptive. But it's a real solution to a very real problem that's getting worse and worse...
https://www.michiganpublic.org/opinion/2026-09-04/auchters-art-socialism
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
The Florida GOP’s Red Scare Is Losing Steam – Mother Jones
“We learned from Trump, if you scream something a thousand times, it sadly saturates. But it’s not working with the same currency [as] past cycles.”…
Saturday, August 29, 2026
The Christian Conspiracy That Ruined My Childhood (Genetically Modified Skeptic on YouTube)
"The CIA wrote my family's theology."
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Saturday, August 22, 2026
Florida’s GOP Has a Very Short Playbook: Call Everyone a Socialist – Mother Jones
Republicans are hoping the label will help deliver a state where many voters fled communism...
Friday, August 21, 2026
Sunday, August 16, 2026
Weekly Roundup: They Are Advocating for Fascism (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast) The Axis Mundi Network
Steven Crowder recently released a video titled “The Case for Fascism,” making an explicit argument for fascism rather than merely flirting with the idea. In this episode of Straight White American Jesus, Brad Onishi and Dan Miller break down Crowder’s argument and ask what it reveals about the direction of the American right.
The conversation connects Crowder’s rhetoric about communism, violence, and “disinfecting” the country to a broader political movement increasingly portraying opponents of MAGA and Christian nationalism as enemies of America. Brad argues that this reflects a deeper shift: if the Christian nationalist right no longer believes it represents a majority of Americans, democracy itself can begin to look like an obstacle rather than a solution.
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https://axismundinetwork.substack.com/p/weekly-roundup-they-are-advocating
The conversation connects Crowder’s rhetoric about communism, violence, and “disinfecting” the country to a broader political movement increasingly portraying opponents of MAGA and Christian nationalism as enemies of America. Brad argues that this reflects a deeper shift: if the Christian nationalist right no longer believes it represents a majority of Americans, democracy itself can begin to look like an obstacle rather than a solution.
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https://axismundinetwork.substack.com/p/weekly-roundup-they-are-advocating
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Monday, August 3, 2026
Red Scare Rising (Conspirituality podcast)
Back in the fall, Trump's NSPM-7 redirected the FBI, DOJ, and IRS toward "left-wing political violence," opening the door to labeling domestic groups terrorist organizations — despite three independent datasets (New America, CSIS, even the ADL!) showing right-wing violence outpacing left-wing violence by factors of 9-to-1 or greater. Last week, Rubio's "Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism" internationalized this McCarthy reboot.
Central to the rhetoric of Rubio and Miller is framing leftist politics as being driven by envy and resentment rather than a response to inequality. Matthew traces this rhetoric, empirically contradicted by relative deprivation research, back through Nietzsche, Scheler, Schoeck, and Rand.
Four days after the Ministerial, the State Department's Cuba report named 70+ Americans — from spies to wedding guests — as one undifferentiated network, a scapegoat machine now churning out congressional subpoenas, a federal grand jury, and a widening dragnet.
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Central to the rhetoric of Rubio and Miller is framing leftist politics as being driven by envy and resentment rather than a response to inequality. Matthew traces this rhetoric, empirically contradicted by relative deprivation research, back through Nietzsche, Scheler, Schoeck, and Rand.
Four days after the Ministerial, the State Department's Cuba report named 70+ Americans — from spies to wedding guests — as one undifferentiated network, a scapegoat machine now churning out congressional subpoenas, a federal grand jury, and a widening dragnet.
Interview:
Thursday, July 30, 2026
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Trump’s New Ridiculous and Dangerous Red-baiting – Mother Jones
Of course, Trump and his minions are not really talking about communism. They are engaged in a cynical con job, deliberately mislabeling all leftism, such as the politics of Democratic Socialists of America and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, as “communist.” Pointing to the electoral wins of Mamdani and other DSAers, they are trying to generate hysteria about communism taking hold—equating socialism with communism and perpetuating a lie. (With his endeavors to force major corporations to hand the US government large ownership interests, Trump himself is striking a socialist stance.)…
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/trump-redbaiting-communism-republicans/
Monday, July 27, 2026
Trump revives old tropes as he pushes warnings of ‘communist menace’
President harks back to red scare of his childhood to attack US left – but will such language resonate beyond Maga base?…
Sunday, July 26, 2026
Weekly Roundup: The Odyssey, Christian Nationalism, and the Invention of “Western Civilization” (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
Brad Onishi and Dan Miller explore the American right’s furious reaction to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and what the controversy reveals about race, representation, gender, sexuality, and the politics of “Western civilization.” From outrage over Black actors and queer representation in contemporary adaptations to the right’s insistence that certain stories, traditions, and cultural identities belong exclusively to white people, the conversation examines why the boundaries of “the West” are constantly being defended—and who gets pushed outside them.
The discussion then turns to the rise of civilizational populism and its growing influence on the American right. Brad and Dan unpack how appeals to “Western Christian civilization” are being used to unite Christian nationalists, technocrats, billionaires, and authoritarian political actors around a shared vision of cultural hierarchy and social order. They connect the backlash over The Odyssey to Marco Rubio’s foreign policy, the politics of Venezuela, the disputed results of a national civics competition, and the broader question of who gets to represent the future of America.
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The discussion then turns to the rise of civilizational populism and its growing influence on the American right. Brad and Dan unpack how appeals to “Western Christian civilization” are being used to unite Christian nationalists, technocrats, billionaires, and authoritarian political actors around a shared vision of cultural hierarchy and social order. They connect the backlash over The Odyssey to Marco Rubio’s foreign policy, the politics of Venezuela, the disputed results of a national civics competition, and the broader question of who gets to represent the future of America.
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Saturday, July 25, 2026
AOC Dismantles Trump's 'Communists' Attacks With A Dose Of Reality | HuffPost Latest News
“Just think about how impossible it has been to raise the minimum wage in America in 10, 15, 20 years. We can’t even raise the minimum wage. Do Republicans really think that this stuff is going to happen? No, they don’t. They’re trying to scare people because they don’t want us talking about the fact that we all have a right to health care in this country.”…
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-communism-attacks_n_6a633452e4b0f1b7fc52914e
'Dumbest thing I've read in 14 years': Dem Rep. blasts Trump admin report detailing Cuban threat
On Monday, the State Department released a 100-page report titled "Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism", which blames the country for the rise of Democratic socialism and warns that it is a threat to the United States. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI), who just returned from a trip to Cuba, joins Antonia Hylton with his reaction to the report.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Xnp6EPiS4
Saturday, July 11, 2026
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