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World politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Has a Nazi theorist's vision of a world divided into 'great spaces' found a new advocate in Trump? | Brendan Simms

Donald Trump's actions and rhetoric parallel Carl Schmitt's doctrines, notably the state of exception and ambitions resembling Schmitt's 'great space' geopolitical vision.
fromThe Nation
4 months ago

Trump's Petty-Tyrant Brand of Fascism

What are you supposed to call it when masked and uniformed federal police show up at a political rally for an opposition politician? Or when the president essentially declares martial law in the capital city? Or, for that matter, when the executive is trying to enforce its cultural policy on a nation's universities and museums? And what else to call it when the administration is trying to cook the unemployment numbers to hide a struggling economic picture?
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