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Political Solution: Dissolve the People

By Robin Bates | Published: June 6, 2021

Brecht’s “The Solution” captures current GOP voter suppression attempts.

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Brecht on Trumpian Democracy Attacks

By Robin Bates | Published: December 15, 2020

Brecht has the perfect poem for Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results.

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Brecht’s Warning for Democracies

By Robin Bates | Published: December 17, 2018

Monday In an important debut article for the Atlantic, former New Yorker writer George Packer mentions a Bertolt Brecht poem to illustrate the threat that the GOP currently poses to democracy. The article contends that Donald Trump is the logical culmination of the Republicans’ 50-year descent into an authoritarian, white identitarian party. According to Packer, the descent […]

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