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The patterns of thought and behavior that subjugated women, Indigenous Peoples, Africans and African Americans, poor men of any skin pigmentation, the Vietnamese, Afghans, Iraqis, and others are alive and well today. Our work together is to keep pointing these patterns out and doing our individual and collective bests to interrupt them—with the intention of permanently breaking them.
Sources and Notes
Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, and Meg Kelly, Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President’s Falsehoods, Misleading Claims, and Flat-Out Lies, (Simon & Schuster, 2020), 218-248.
These few examples are obviously cherry-picked to make the point. Lots of good folks doing good work wear suits. The clothes, however, do not make the person, and references to concepts like “appropriate dress” and “decorum” lose their meaning when expressed by everyday practitioners of
Peter Turchin researches political instability through multidisciplinary lenses. His most recent book is End Times: Counter-Elites and the Path of Social Disintegration (2023). https://peterturchin.com/who-are-the-elites/
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