Mike’s dad was involved with a populist 3rd party push in 1972 with the guy who wrote the foreword to his book, John Schmitz. Schmitz’s daughter is Mary Kay Letourneau and his son John played a small role in trying to steal the 2020 election for Trump. bsky.app/profile/seth...

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With the obvious caveat that children are not responsible for nor necessarily agree with what their parents do, have I mentioned lately that Axios’s Mike Allen is the son of OG conspiracy theorist Gary Allen, whose 1971 blockbuster was the book that inspired Alex Jones to become the man he is today?

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...and civilization to empty faraway lands without culture or history, American industrial society as a source of destruction and alienation.

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I broadly agree, but I think the theme of loss is 1) present among conservative movements everywhere, not just in the States, and 2) part of a wider mythology of emptiness on the political right: Lack of national purpose, empty promises of modern civilization, colonialism as a drive to bring life...

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-- It's possible they know what they're doing is unpopular and will cost them politically. But they're not trying to consolidate power, they're in kamikaze mode; they're using the power they have now to maximally sabotage institutions they hate as a last ditch effort to slow the inevitable. [3/3]

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