Monday, May 08, 2023

When a leftist journalist and professor takes sides in America’s ‘slow civil war’

This journalist and professor clearly and unambiguously suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome to the point it is obscene!

However, this professor from Dartmouth College introduces the term civil war to describe the cultural wars or polarization in the U.S. he may be on to something!

"Jeff Sharlet admits up front that his book about what he and others call the “Trumpocene” epoch is not objective.

Transparent subjectivity [???] is a virtue for this kind of reporting,” he said. “I am trying to understand the proliferation, which is very real, of fascist flags [across America]. I don’t like it when I see a movement [creating] fascist folk art.”

In “The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War,” the religion reporter and writing professor chronicles his recent journeys across America interviewing QAnon acolytes, Christian nationalists, proud misogynists, unrepentant January 6ers, armed militia men and strict anti-abortion activists [did he interview anyone else?]— all still in thrall to Donald Trump. ..."

A Jewish journalist takes sides in America’s ‘slow civil war’ - Jewish Telegraphic Agency



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