Blog posted on Columbia University’s Teachers College Press site: https://www.tcpress.com/blog/fascism-happening-what-teachers/
Tag: authoritarianism
Fascists Shed their Republican KKK Sheep’s Clothes – as directed by Stephen Miller
Republicans are unhappy that a jury unanimously found their fascist leader guilty of 34 counts of fraud. Stephen Miller, who served as a senior policy and speechwriter during Trump’s presidency, hyperventilated, “Is every House committee controlled by Republicans using its subpoena power in every way it needs to right now? Is every Republican D.A….
Failed Coups & Far-Right Electoral Politics
Adolph Hitler’s “behavior during imprisonment convinced the authorities that, like his political organization…he was no longer to be feared. It is believed he will retire to private life and to Austria, the country of his birth.” So read a 1924 New York Times article headlined “Hitler Tamed by Prison” in the aftermath of his attempted…
Trumpism and the Politics of Patriarchal Virility
Women in the construction of patriarchal virility are valued only if they are the right kind of women, those who know their place in a male-centric order and defer to men in both the family and in the public square…