Think of DJT and Hegseth as (to cite Timothy Snyder) “utopians of violence.” Cormac McCarthy explores the phenomenon in “Blood Meridian.”
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DJT and Hegseth, Utopians of Violence
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Mackie, Trump, and Sadistic Thrills
Trump supporters may get a Mack the Knife thrill from watching their criminal leader perform.
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America’s Political Violence Problem
Some see Trump as a “stochastic terrorism,” inciting others to violence. Cormac McCarthy may understand as well as anyone what’s going on.
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MAGA & Regeneration thru Violence
MAGA’s increasingly violent rhetoric fits a long American tradition of regeneration through violence.
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Trumpism and the Violence Myth
Slotkin says that “the” American myth is regeneration through violence. That myth can be seen in the Western, including in “Lonesome Dove” and “Blood Meridian.”
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Can a Dream Hold Us Together?
In “Midnight’s Children,” Rushdie shows the forces destroying India’s dream of national unity. Americans will find it familiar.
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