Thomas Zimmer

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GOP congressman from Tennessee Andy Ogles posted on Ex-Twitter on March 9: “Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie.”
GOP congressman from Tennessee Andy Ogles posted on Ex-Twitter on March 9: “Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie.”
In November 2023, several high-ranking AfD politicians attended a meeting with neo-Nazis and rightwing businesspeople to discuss a plan envisioning the ethnic cleansing of Germany via the forced deportation of millions of people. They euphemistically called it “remigration,” a term European rightwing extremists have widely adopted.
"The Naval Academy Removed Books Critical of Racism. Many Defending White Power Remain. Some of the books removed: “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou; “Memorializing the Holocaust” by Janet Jacobs; “How to Be Anti-Racist” by Ibram X. Kendi; “The Making of Black Lives Matter” by Christopher J. Lebron. Some of the books that remain: “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler; “The Camp of the Saints” by Jean Raspail.
Bret Stephens in a piece published in the NYT this morning: "I’d say the lowest-quality institutions created since the 1990s have names like Columbia and Berkeley — these are essentially factories of Maoist cadres taught by professors whose political views ranged almost exclusively from the left to the far left."
Screenshot of an opinion column by Ross Douthat, published in the NYT on Jan 11, titled “O Canada,Come Join Us”
A tweet from Elon Musk from Jan 3: “Habeck is a traitor to the German people”
Screenshot of a guest essay in the NYT, written by Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi, published on Jan 1, titled: “Let’s Try Something Different in How We Deal With Trump.”
Trump and Vance posing for a smiling photo-op with their guest of honor Daniel Penny in a suite at the Army-Navy game
Screenshot of a piece published in The American Mind, written by Glen Ellmers, titled “Conservatism is no longer enough.” Fittingly, the piece was published with a picture of a very manly-looking man getting ready for a fight, taping his fists.
Screenshot of a piece published in The American Mind, written by Glen Ellmers, titled “Conservatism is no longer enough.” Fittingly, the piece was published with a picture of a very manly-looking man getting ready for a fight, taping his fists.
A graph showing the percentage of QAnon believers, by party affiliation – source: 2023 American Values Survey
The 2023 AVS sought to measure support for the QAnon conspiracy by breaking it down into three questions and asked people whether or not they agreed that “(1) The government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation; (2) There is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders; (3) Because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.”
A graph showing the rise in QAnon believers, 2021-2023 – source: PRRI surveys
Screenshot of a New York Times piece from December 2022, written by Jeremy Peters, titled: “Critics say Musk has revealed himself as a conservative. It’s not so simple.”
A graphic taken from PRRI’s 2023 American Values Survey showing approval/disapproval with two different statements – 1: “People advocating for the rights of transgender people have gone too far in recent years”; 2: “Restricting the rights of transgender people is just another form of discrimination.”
A graphic taken from PRRI’s 2023 American Values Survey showing approval/disapproval with two different statements – 1: “People advocating for the rights of transgender people have gone too far in recent years”; 2: “Restricting the rights of transgender people is just another form of discrimination.”
Screenshot of a column by Thomas Chatterton Williams in The Atlantic, published on November 16, titled “Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?”
Screenshot of a column by David Brooks in the NYT, published on November 10, 2022, titled “The Fever is Breaking.”
A “news analysis” in the NYT, published on Sept 22, titled: “The Politics of Motherhood Become a Campaign-Trail Cudgel: The presidential race has exposed a fault line in American political culture over the deeply personal decision to have children.”
Screenshot of a post from @atrupar on Ex-Twitter, chronicling a speech Trump gave in Tucson, Arizona on Sept 12: “Trump: ‘I'm angry about young American girls being raped and sodomized and murdered by savage criminal aliens’”
Screenshot of an astute post from Adrian Daub over on Ex-Twitter: “You guys I *almost* suspect that letting the far right pick all the important electoral priorities and heedlessly copying their rhetoric may have been a mistake?”
Guest opinion essay from National Review editor Rich Lowry, published in the New York Times on August 27, titled: “Trump Can Win on Character”
My latest “Democracy Americana” newsletter: “The Origins of Trumpism and the Birth of the Present: Reflections on the pre-history of Trump’s rise, the peculiar nature of Trumpism, and the radical politics of white despair – based on John Ganz’s masterful ‘When the Clock Broke’”
My latest “Democracy Americana” newsletter: “The Origins of Trumpism and the Birth of the Present: Reflections on the pre-history of Trump’s rise, the peculiar nature of Trumpism, and the radical politics of white despair – based on John Ganz’s masterful ‘When the Clock Broke’”
Screenshot of my latest “Democracy Americana” newsletter: “The Origins of Trumpism and the Birth of the Present: Reflections on the pre-history of Trump’s rise, the peculiar nature of Trumpism, and the radical politics of white despair – based on John Ganz’s masterful ‘When the Clock Broke’”
Screenshot of my latest “Democracy Americana” newsletter: “The Origins of Trumpism and the Birth of the Present: Reflections on the pre-history of Trump’s rise, the peculiar nature of Trumpism, and the radical politics of white despair – based on John Ganz’s masterful ‘When the Clock Broke’”
Conor Friedersdorf weighs in on the Trump verdict on ex-Twitter (Screenshot).