Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Seth Cotlar
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When Robinson came to the US he met with Michael Flynn and this crew. Violent local temu warlords like these guys play an important role producing violent propaganda content for the far right oligarchs who benefit from the chaos these thugs try to stoke. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Both the street fighting, Proud Boy-aligned streamer thugs in Portland AND this well-connected upper middle class influencer in Eastern Oregon have expressed admiration for UK fascist Robinson. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Zemmour will get hundreds of articles in the Anglophone press over the next year despite only scoring max 4.5% in polls.
Zemmour won't be elected; Zemmour won't move the needle; Zemmour is not worth watching that closely.
Fascism in the 1930s was fueled by false or exaggerated stories about collective guilt, depicting white Christians as the victims of racialized interlopers who were supposedly working in leagues with “radical left globalists” and who deserved whatever “defensive” mob violence they encountered.
When Father Coughlin blamed the Jews for Kristallnacht, it was the beginning of the end for his influence. newspapers.ushmm.org/events/fathe...
The transnational dimension of these local fascist mobilizations are important to keep track of, but without succumbing to conspiracy theories. bsky.app/profile/samf...
I know this is hopelessly naive but I genuinely never thought so many people would be comfortable using a website designed to help coordinate fascist activity.
