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John Ganz

@lioneltrolling.bsky.social

dottore, ingegnere, avvocato When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from @fsgbooks https://www.unpopularfront.news/

19,164 Followers  |  124 Following  |  476 Posts  |  Joined: 01.12.2024  |  2.0116

Latest posts by lioneltrolling.bsky.social on Bluesky

This is how I make my living. It's not that easy to change.

09.12.2025 13:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Talking to Jeffrey Herf about Reactionary Modernism Author Series No. 6

In 1945, Thomas Mann declared, "The really characteristic and dangerous aspect of National Socialism was its mixture of robust modernity and an affirmative stance toward progress combined with dreams of the past: a highly technological romanticism.”
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09.12.2025 12:47 — 👍 58    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 0
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Questions Concerning Technology; Arendt, 50 years later; Ukraine's Agony Reading, Watching 12.07.25

What is technology doing?; Hannah Arendt's thought, 50 years after her death; the cost of conscription in Ukraine
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07.12.2025 17:37 — 👍 31    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

My politics are the left wing of the unclear and present danger podcast (radicalized 90s nostalgia where antifascism is government policy)

06.12.2025 18:22 — 👍 108    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1
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Politics and Capitalist Stagnation Live from New York

My notes from last night's panel on Brenner-Riley.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/politics-a...

04.12.2025 14:14 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Yeah, what is 'Post-Liberalism' anyway? Questions for Ross Douthat

Abstractions without principles are mere euphemisms.—
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02.12.2025 14:37 — 👍 85    🔁 20    💬 8    📌 9
John Ganz | What's Happening Here? Fascism as Past and Prologue
YouTube video by The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory John Ganz | What's Happening Here? Fascism as Past and Prologue

Video of my U Chicago lecture is now available.—
youtu.be/gVdv1tWqmaw?...

01.12.2025 15:51 — 👍 93    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 2
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Join the Unpopular Front A Not Quite Lost Cause

Unpopular Front is having a holiday sale!
www.unpopularfront.news/p/join-the-u...

25.11.2025 13:48 — 👍 77    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 2
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Join the Unpopular Front A Not Quite Lost Cause

Unpopular Front is having a holiday sale!
www.unpopularfront.news/p/join-the-u...

25.11.2025 13:48 — 👍 77    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 2
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come play me on online-go dot come username comrade_pellegrino (i'm terrible)

24.11.2025 20:48 — 👍 27    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Talking to John P. McCormick about Machiavelli Author Series No. 5

Spoke to John P. McCormick about Machiavelli, democracy, populism, and, yes, the Epstein emails.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-to...

24.11.2025 12:18 — 👍 32    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1
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Unclear and Present Politics Episode 10 — Victory Lap Edition (Video) | Unclear and Present Patreon Get more from Unclear and Present Patreon on Patreon

in the latest episode of our podcast, @lioneltrolling.bsky.social and i talked the apparent MAGA crack-up

24.11.2025 14:11 — 👍 265    🔁 31    💬 2    📌 1
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Talking to John P. McCormick about Machiavelli Author Series No. 5

Spoke to John P. McCormick about Machiavelli, democracy, populism, and, yes, the Epstein emails.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-to...

24.11.2025 12:18 — 👍 32    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1

For my grad seminar tomorrow, we'll be discussing @lioneltrolling.bsky.social's WHEN THE CLOCK BROKE and @pastpunditry.bsky.social's PARTISANS. A parallel I only just noticed: Ch 6 of Ganz's book is entitled, "Rage," and Ch 6 of Hemmer's book is called, "Angry White Men-And Women."

23.11.2025 14:53 — 👍 40    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 2
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The Vices of Nationalism; America in the Longhouse; Revisiting Chomsky on Cambodia Reading, Watching 11.23.25

Yoram Hazony's empty phrases; did the Iroquois really influence the Constitution?; Chomsky and Kissinger on the Khmer Rouge
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-vices-...

23.11.2025 14:00 — 👍 25    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

The author was never a republican. The book is not anti-intellectual. She is a trained political theorist.

23.11.2025 01:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think you should read a little more

21.11.2025 14:19 — 👍 111    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0
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We Are Not Amused The Olivia Nuzzi Return is a Disgrace

Olivia e Mobile.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/we-are-not...

18.11.2025 16:04 — 👍 209    🔁 48    💬 6    📌 26

pretty much me

17.11.2025 20:32 — 👍 53    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 0

oh my bad

17.11.2025 13:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The MAGA meltdown; Mamdani's Rainbow Coalition; Remembering Tatsuya Nakadai Reading, Watching 11.16.25

The weekly Reading, Watching post.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-maga-m...

16.11.2025 15:19 — 👍 31    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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Unclear and Present Politics Episode 9 — Epstein Emails Edition (Video) | Unclear and Present Patreon Get more from Unclear and Present Patreon on Patreon

new episode of the pod where john and i discuss the shutdown, the epstein emails and a certain new book by a certain disgraced journalist

15.11.2025 17:36 — 👍 486    🔁 48    💬 4    📌 3

Really thoughtful conversation, @lioneltrolling.bsky.social and @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social , but don’t talk about me like I’m super private about this stuff. Promote my book next time! I’m sure I talked about that asshole Tucker Carlson in there somewhere www.amazon.com/Klansmans-So...

15.11.2025 23:06 — 👍 39    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
Cover of “when the clock broke” by John Ganz. Subtitle conmen conspirators, and the origins of Trumpism. Book is black blue, red and white.

Cover of “when the clock broke” by John Ganz. Subtitle conmen conspirators, and the origins of Trumpism. Book is black blue, red and white.

Got around to this one late but I’m glad I did. It’s outstanding. @lioneltrolling.bsky.social

15.11.2025 02:05 — 👍 80    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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Opinion | The ‘Groyperfication’ of the G.O.P.

here’s a gift link for this must-read @lioneltrolling.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...

14.11.2025 14:42 — 👍 66    🔁 23    💬 2    📌 3
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Opinion | Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and the Right’s ‘Groyper’ Problem

this interview with @lioneltrolling.bsky.social is great. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...

14.11.2025 13:12 — 👍 51    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 2

Such a treat to get to talk with @lioneltrolling.bsky.social about Furious Minds. We got into it about the pretensions of some of these people and it was fun.

13.11.2025 14:21 — 👍 25    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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damn these epstein emails are crazy

13.11.2025 13:32 — 👍 262    🔁 43    💬 3    📌 0
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Talking to Laura K. Field about MAGA "Ideas" Author Series No. 4

I spoke to @lkatfield.bsky.social about her new book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-to...

13.11.2025 12:01 — 👍 30    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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Operation Drumbeat The Right is Loud but Hollow

The right has become essentially a big propaganda apparatus; that's scary but also a weakness.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/operation-...

12.11.2025 12:22 — 👍 89    🔁 24    💬 0    📌 6

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