Here are some of the articles and essays I have bookmarked as essential reading as we move forward. Please add your own suggestions. Discussion, as always, to follow in the comments.
Katherine Franke, “Making White Supremacy Respectable, Again,” LARB.
Toni Morrison, “Making America White Again,” The New Yorker.
Robin D.G. Kelley, “After Trump,” Boston Review.
Mike Davis, “Not A Revolution––Yet.”
Aaron Benanav, “It’s Not About NAFTA,” Verso.
Tressie McMillan Cottom, “Finding Hope In A Loveless Place.”
Mike Konczal, “Learning From Trump In Retrospect.”
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Must add this piece by Nikhil Pal Singh, “Trump and The Present Crisis,” Verso. http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2993-trump-and-the-present-crisis
Thanks for these, Kurt!
Adding Hannah Gais, “A Beer Hall Putsch in an Italian Restaurant,” Washington Spectator, Dec. 6: https://washingtonspectator.org/npi-alt-right-dc/
I enjoyed Runciman’s article in the London Review of Books, as well as Acuña’s radical critique of the Democratic Party and the mainstream media, from a Latinx perspective. Again in 2016 we saw the deeply problematic trope of the Sleeping Giant emerge again…as if Latinxs represented a homogeneous whole, sigh.
David Runciman, “Is this How Democracy Ends?”
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n23/david-runciman/is-this-how-democracy-ends
Rodolfo F. Acuña, “Latinos and the Fracturing Democratic Coalition”
http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2957-latinos-and-the-fracturing-democratic-coalition
Thanks Kahlil. Will check these out promptly!
Should add these.
Corey Robin, “Against the Politics of Fear,” Jacobin. An aria against “operatic” fear-mongering on the left. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/against-politics-fear-trump-republicans-organizing-change/
David Greenberg, “An intellectual History of Trumpism, Politico. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/trumpism-intellectual-history-populism-paleoconservatives-214518
Could not discern any intellectual history, here.
This is a bit late but this article will be on interest . It is on Trump and authoritarian populism. Free access ,.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10357718.2016.1266463