There’s nothing more appropriately telling about the present moment and maddening than someone reacting to some crazy, fascist thing Trump first said or posted in 2016 and now reposted or said again in 2026 and saying, “Okay, this thing has gone far enough! Somebody needs to do something!”

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Watching people who had no idea get exposed to how extensive the rot is in academia and how their perception of what is happening in the academy is dictated by false cultural and political narratives is a wild but necessary thing.

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It isn't hard to understand what happens when capital is concentrated in increasingly few hands at historic rates. It leads to corruption, authoritarianism, and order changes that go beyond the status quo illusion most live in. This isn't hard. It's quite obvious and quite easy.

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It's telling that corporate and institutional media leans heavily into either "Trump is stupid" or "this is evil and unprecedented." Trump is stupid, this is evil, but it isn't unprecedented. All of it aims, consciously or not, to portray it as an aberration while ignoring the problem: capitalism.

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One article after another about Trump allying with the authoritarian bloc of Putin and Xi. All focusing on ephemeral and illusory paranoia, never touching on very obvious corruption, self-dealing, and the influence of oligarchs actively attacking democracy and enjoying deals with all the actors.

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