Nick Cohen
Journalist at Freelance
Author at Writing from London
Journalist and author. I produce Writing From London, an independent newsletter about politics, culture and authoritarianism. https://t.co/zB17IuSdWb
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2 weeks ago |
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Mysterious bombers hit a Russian apartment block in 1999 (Wikipedia)So faithfully is Donald Trump following the autocrat’s playbook it’s as if Vladimir Putin had written the script for him. Here’s how the section on power grabbing goes. The wannabe dictator turns a minor crisis into a major confrontation. He – it’s always a “he” – deploys the repressive power of the state in the hope that his opponents overreact. And if they don’t, he deploys more repressive power anyway.
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3 weeks ago |
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3 weeks ago |
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Image by Mike Finn. Flickr creative commonsNever underestimate the power of class hatred. And never think that class divisions are only between rich and poor. The tensions between old money and new, the loaded and the merely wealthy, the grammar schoolboys and the private schoolboys rip through the right. Conservative class hatreds can be far more potent than anything the left can produce.
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3 weeks ago |
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I try to keep posts about our crisis free to read so that they can receive a wide audience. But, if you can afford to, please consider supporting my journalism by becoming a paid subscriber. Resist the temptation to discover an atom of goodness in Elon Musk now that he has turned on Donald Trump. By all means, enjoy the spectacle of thieves falling out. If you wish to gloat as they tear lumps out of each other, please, be my guest.
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3 weeks ago |
nickcohen.substack.com | Nick Cohen
In 1938 the Italian socialist Ignazio Silone said of Mussolini’s dictatorship, “fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place”. His succinct diagnosis of far-right politics as a revolt against a fantasy applies tenfold today. You can criticise “wokeness” as robustly as you wish – please, go ahead, be my guest. Much of it is ill-thought through and illiberal sloganeering.
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