Jeremy Strickler

Trump’s former chief of staff says he fits ‘fascist’ definition and prefers ‘dictator approach’ | CNN Politics John Kelly, the retired Marine general who was Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff, entered the 2024 fray in stunning fashion, saying the former president fits “into the general definition of fa...

This one too: www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/p...

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The corresponding image is certainly not a MAGA protest. It's a protest in support of public power. I found the juxtaposition quite jarring when I opened the TFP this morning.

This tracks with my classroom experience this past semester, too. I emphasized how much the broader Trump universe learned about the institution since '17. Project 2025 and the related planning of "the administration-in-waiting" during the Biden years prepared the authoritarian blitzkrieg.

The executive relishes any opportunity to rock a bomber jacket.

I partially blame the cultural development of the CinC on the design of bomber jackets

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

This is a thorough clarion call for waking up to -- and confronting -- the Right's "Armageddon complex"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Chattanooga showed up with some energy today. #HandsOff

Excited to read this.

And Jackson State.

Guess I'll be talking to my students about Kent State today. Cue up CSNY.

Not pretending either. I'm teaching the Presidency and APD courses this semester. I have to steel myself every morning.

Flying it proudly in Chattanooga.