To call Trumpism fascist is to suggest that it demands from us a unique response. We can deploy the “fascism” moniker to Trump’s ascendance by recognizing features like selective populism, nationalism, racism, traditionalism, the deployment of Newspeak and disregard for reasoned debate. The reason we should use the term is because, taken together, these aspects of Trumpism are not well combated or contained by standard liberal appeals to reason. It is constitutive of its fascism that it demands a different sort of opposition.
Liberals cling to institutions: They begged to no avail for faithless electors, they see “evisceration” in a friendly late-night talk-show debate, they put faith in investigations and justice with regards to Russian interference and business conflicts of interest. They grasp at hypotheticals about who could have won, were things not as they in fact are. For political subjects so tied to the mythos of Reason, it is liberals who now seem deranged. Meanwhile, it is the radical left—so often tarred as irrational—who are calling upon both US and European histories of anti-fascist action to offer practical and serious responses in this political moment. For all the ink spilled about rising fascism, too little has been said about anti-fascism.
Anti-fascist, or antifa, doesn’t only delineate that which opposes fascism. It is a set of tactics and practices that have developed since the early 20th century (and the rise of fascism in Italy) as a confrontational response to fascist groups, rooted in militant left-wing and anarchist politics. As organizers from anti-fascist research and news site Antifa NYC told The Nation: “Antifa combines radical left-wing and anarchist politics, revulsion at racists, sexists, homophobes, anti-Semites, and Islamophobes, with the international anti-fascist culture of taking the streets and physically confronting the brownshirts of white supremacy, whoever they may be.” As with fascisms, not all anti-fascisms are the same, but the essential feature is that anti-fascism does not tolerate fascism; it would give it no platform for debate.
Surprised to see The Nation publish a pro-antifa info piece. Good on the editor. Good read for those who don’t get it.
Every other year has been the hottest on record for a while now and people still think cllimate change is a hoax
That temperature anomaly map is weird, and I’m not entirely sure why I’m seeing it everywhere. It doesn’t show the extreme warmth in the arctic, and it’s much grainier that it needs to be, both spatially and w/r/t temperature anomaly. This is the figure that NASA/NOAA actually led its presentation with:
It shows the astonishing warming in the arctic (nearly one degree Fahrenheit warmer than the previous record! Hence the very troubling news about sea ice) and puts the warming in central and SE Asia in perspective.
And while we’re marveling over the 3rd record warmest year, let’s not forget the period between May 2015 and August 2016, where EVERY MONTH broke or tied the record for that month.
16 straight months that were outside the realm of recorded human experience.
The temperature map in Bog’s post was only from one dataset which doesn’t appear to have any coverage at the poles or in some bits of Africa. I think the one you posted is more complete and has probably gotten some satellite data and some interpolation done.
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