Michael Feola
@feolski
Dad. Political Theorist. Writes on white nationalism, the far right, critical theory. Author: The Rage of Replacement (2024, UMN Press). Words at The Washington Post, Slate, The Guardian.
And he continues posting through it. "Archetypes will be overwritten. This is psychological warfare."
Far right leaders: "f*ck your feelings! No safe spaces! All must be hard and rational in body, mind, and spirit!!!" Also far right leaders: "this movie cast some trans and non-white folks in leading roles, so everybody must boycott this [I kid you not] 'Anti-White Humiliation Ritual'!"
The White House comms division bullhorning one message all morning: election emergency demands executive control. Because the Reichstag fire doesn't always have to be a fire. Any emergency will do.
"On a podcast in last November, Scheer warned that white people were being driven toward extinction and said restoring an America populated by people of white European descent would require “clearing our land of other people”."
"Scheer has claimed that Jews are responsible for porn, the assassinations of JFK and conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and the 9/11 terror attacks, and has repeated the conspiracy theory that Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent and blackmailed politicians into supporting an “Israel first” agenda."
A recent (open-access) publication on the far right politics of masculinity. A deep dive into their obsession with hard, masculine-coded bodies -- their obsession with testosterone/nutritional conspiracies -- and their obsession with gender boundaries. Check it out (and pass along)! Link below.
How the World Cup is covered on The Other Site. Becuase when you're a white nationalist, everything is grist for the white grievance machine. Everything an opportunity to wail and rage over demographic change.
Oh hey look at what Elon’s Super-PAC is posting these days. Totally normal and cool stuff from the guy cheerleading European race riots.
Probably a bad thing when the world’s richest man is using the world’s largest megaphone to accuse a Jewish man of a plot to “end Western Civilization”.
The right-wing mega-influencers having a very normal reaction to the NYC primaries. "Third world communists are the enemy.... They hate white people. They hate our heritage and traditions."
Probably a bad thing that the World's Richest Man, who runs the world's largest right-wing incubator platform, is posting about immigration as an "ethnic cleansing" of white Europeans (in this case, "ethnic Germans").
You'd think this was a still, ripped from a dystopian film, offering a heavy-handed caricature of the fascist future -- where all is reduced to a huckster's dream of garish, violent masculinity. Except that, of course, it is actually our world, peddled by the actual White House comms team.
Fun fact. If you add up the words in these two tweets from a MAGA mega-influencer, they total fourteen. Weird, huh?
Trump: "we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets". Not gonna lie. Feeling kinda nostalgic for the days when US Presidents at least pretended their colonial wars for oil weren't just colonial wars for oil.
What's happening over in Elon's radicalization chamber. Appeals to organized ethnic violence from major leaders of the European far right. "Remigration or civil war. Your choice."
It should really be a bigger deal that the World's Richest Man, who also holds high-level US Government security clearances, is a human firehose of white supremacist talking points.
Actual tweet from the vice-president of the United States. Using a tragic death to bullhorn the talking points of the far right international -- their xenophobic gospel of "civilizational death" ("mass invasion of migrants"!).
In case you're wondering, this was his other tweet today: "Mass deportations and tear gas for all rioters." Xenophobia, homophobia, disdain for the first amendment, worship of the police state -- it's all there.
The GOP, y'all. An actual tweet from an elected official in the nation's highest legislative body.
I think we might be getting a hint of what's coming next for the White House lawn.