Much food for thought (the Dahrendorf lecture and your personal remarks) - thank you for sharing this with us! I listened to the Prospect- podcast too and - all in all - the situation remains bleak (we only don't know how much unravelling of the state of things we will have to face with all these right-wingers in the next decade...). I still think of Poland and how they got their country back (at least in a "small" but nevertheless significant way - even if their conservatives of course pander to the right too... But they have gotten rid of the PIS- party). Vance seems to be determined - the whole Bannon-machinery is at full speed... We'll see. I think Ruth Ben-Ghiat is absolutely right when she says that communicating a positive vision of a shared future is key to any electoral success. But I also think that those afore-mentioned doubts about the erosion of checks and balances are very real... I am definitely unsure how far this will go as well, tbh.
I find very strange this assimilation of history with war. We may have to imagine that there is another form of history possible.
Much food for thought (the Dahrendorf lecture and your personal remarks) - thank you for sharing this with us! I listened to the Prospect- podcast too and - all in all - the situation remains bleak (we only don't know how much unravelling of the state of things we will have to face with all these right-wingers in the next decade...). I still think of Poland and how they got their country back (at least in a "small" but nevertheless significant way - even if their conservatives of course pander to the right too... But they have gotten rid of the PIS- party). Vance seems to be determined - the whole Bannon-machinery is at full speed... We'll see. I think Ruth Ben-Ghiat is absolutely right when she says that communicating a positive vision of a shared future is key to any electoral success. But I also think that those afore-mentioned doubts about the erosion of checks and balances are very real... I am definitely unsure how far this will go as well, tbh.