Cas Mudde

casmudde.bsky.social

01 February 2025 16:58

Too many strategies to fight the far right are dead on arrival because they either assume a no-longer-existing normative consensus or call upon (right-wing) elites to go against their own ideals and interests.

ellie lockhart (she/they)

eleanor.lockhart.contact

01 February 2025 16:54

People on here really need to recalibrate their understandings of what makes someone likely to be helpful to the cause of democracy in a crisis like thi You need to accept that, almost certainly, “radical leftists” will play zero role in any solution to our current crisis

BrooklynDad_Defiant!

mmpadellan.bsky.social

01 February 2025 12:50

White privilege is firing a bunch of FAA officials because REASONS, forcing the FAA Director to resign, freezing all hiring of air traffic controllers, and then having planes crash and drop out of the sky in a span of TWO FUCKING DAYS and getting to KEEP YOUR JOB. My Black ass would be fired.

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”

pixelatedboat.bsky.social

01 February 2025 12:49

Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be

Chris Hayes

chrislhayes.bsky.social

01 February 2025 12:49

There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.