MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Catching up with where the Trumpenproletariat of a swingy area of Pennsylvania are at now:basically, still have the same Fox-News-style grievances as before Trump showed up
By Astead W. Herndon @ NYTimes.com, March 15
[....] Daniel Squadron, the former New York state senator who leads Future Now, a national organization to help elect Democrats to state legislatures, said he cautioned people against thinking the wave of overt white identity politics is simply an offshoot of Mr. Trump.
Mr. Squadron pointed out that, in the Pennsylvania race, Mr. Scavo’s controversial social media posts began before Mr. Trump’s candidacy. Other candidates in this mold, such as the Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, won support of local Republicans even though Mr. Trump had endorsed Mr. Moore’s opponent.
“It’s not about Trump,” Mr. Squadron said. “It’s about a mind-set, a conspiracy theory, an ethnonationalism that Trump reflects.”[....]
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I came to read the article, which I might normally pass over, because it came highly recommended: Jane Mayer of The New Yorker retweeted it.
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/15/2019 - 1:16pm