by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 23, 2023 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Opinion | This is how fascism comes to America The Republican Party’s attempt to treat Donald Trump as a normal political candidate would be laughable were it not so perilous to the republic. If only he would mouth the party’s “conservative”...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 12, 2021 | • Politics
How Far Down the Road Towards Fascism Has America Gone? While there’s apparently “nothing to see here” when it comes to conservative media outlets and even, in many ways, mainstream media, it’s worth asking the question: “How far down the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 8, 2021 | • Politics, Racism
Colonialism is built on the rubble of a false idea of ancient Rome | Aeon Essays At the dawn of the 20th century, Italian patriots were struggling to overcome a profound inferiority complex. Ever since 1861, when Giuseppe Garibaldi unified the country’s...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 19, 2018 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Corey Robin via Facebook alerted me to this great essay on “the Trump as fascist thesis”… Dylan Riley: What Is Trump?. New Left Review 114, November-December 2018. The pitfalls of bad historical analogizing laid bare in ubiquitous attempts to...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 4, 2018 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Madeleine Albright Warns: Don’t Let Fascism Go ‘Unnoticed Until It’s Too Late’ Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright describes herself as an “optimist who worries a lot.” And lately, it seems, there has been much to worry...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 18, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Are ‘Antifa’ and the ‘Alt-Right’ Equally Violent? In the hours and days following the deadly “Unite the Right” rally on 12 August 2017, President Donald Trump laid the blame for the violence that took the lives of three people in...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 1, 2017 | • Politics
How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and Hitler smithsonian.com How to cover the rise of a political leader who’s left a paper trail of anti-constitutionalism, racism and the encouragement of violence? Does the press take the position that its subject...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 30, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
The title here might be somewhat misleading but regardless of what you think in that regard the article if full of of good information on what is going in this Trump administrations attack on the America we know an love. It looks like with each passing day and week of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 24, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Science
Trump just ordered government scientists to hide facts from the public He also immediately suspended all EPA contracts and...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 23, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
A thinly veiled indictment of Brexit and populist politicians like Geert Wilders and Donald J. Trump. “Hitler did not steal power,” the pope said. “He was elected by his people and then he destroyed his people.” Pope Francis warns against...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 21, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
The early stages of Trump’s fascism rears its ugly head… National Park Service Banned From Tweeting After Anti-Trump Retweets The National Park service retweeted some sick Donald Trump burns, noting how, uh, lightly attended his inauguration was compared...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 25, 2016 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Umberto Eco Makes a List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland One of the key questions facing both journalists and loyal oppositions these days is how do we stay honest as euphemisms and...
