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Sarah Palin: US Civil War is going to happen over trump prosecutions
Eastman: "trump's surrender crosses the Rubicon for our system of justice."
To understand these people I highly recommend Mohsin Hamid's small book THE LAST WHITE MAN. It is under 200 pages and does an excellent job in a fictional setting of highlighting the future these people fear. It moves slowly but it's worth hanging in there to the end.
An incredible resource, the IDS Bulletin archive and all recent issues are fully open access.
'Throughout its history we have published articles in themed collected issues that bridge academic, practice and policy discourse. All have been developed through partnerships and evolving development challenges.'
People share true or false news anticipating positive reactions from like-minded audiences and refrain from sharing to avoid upsetting politically dissimilar audiences
PragerU announced that their videos had been approved for use in Texas classrooms, but after a flashy announcement video featuring a state board of education member, the chair of the Texas Board of Education denied that any materials had been approved.
Inconsistent and very weak associations (at best) between childhood personality and general conservatism, social conservatism, and economic conservative.
Multiple insider sources have told me they expect Trump to turn himself in for arrest at the Fulton County jail either immediately before or DURING the first Republican presidential debate this Wednesday in Wisconsin.
'The construction of Latin America’s media spaces was not the result of
particular struggles for participation and debate. From the beginning, these spaces were derived from elite power, being conceived as (a) commodities to be exploited by the private sector and (b) mechanisms of political and societal control'
What's Left in Latin America?
Regime change in New Times
(2009)
Recommended⬇️
Latin American political development presents us with an array of paradoxes that
befuddle the predictions, prescriptions and commentaries of writers and academics on both the right and the left.
"The #water in our rivers is over-allocated and under-protected. And with all this growth, there’s tremendous pressure to push environmental needs to the side." https://www.texasobserver.org/staying-afloat/
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty/Granbury ISDAt 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 2, when Assistant Principal Danny Guidry walked past the high schoo..
Transgression is an essential concept for understanding many of today's political dynamics.
POPULISM AS A TRANSGRESSIVE STYLE by Théo Aiolfi (2022).
"As a consequence of its performative turn, the critical literature on populism has dedicated increasing attention to its sociocultural and stylistic features. Among the most prominent concepts underpinning this approach is the notion that populism relies on the “flaunting of the low” or the use of “bad manners.” This article engages in an extensive discussion of the way this concept is used in the literature and showcases its main limitations. In replacement, I then suggest the alternative concept of transgression, understood as the violation of a norm, which has the substantial advantages of being more flexible and versatile as well as less reliant on a normative binary".
DONALD TRUMP AND THE RATIONALIZATION OF TRANSGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR: The role of group prototypicality and identity advancement by Ben Davies, Carola Leicht and Dominic Abrams (2022).
"Overall, the present study identifies the rationalization of transgressive leader behaviors as a novel pathway to their continued support. We also identify identity advancement as a key driver of this effect. These results provide an important extension of deviance credit and indicate that the role of group prototypicality in the context of group serving leaders may need to be reconsidered. These results also have worrying implications for the nature of transgressive leadership and demonstrate how unimpeachable such leadership may become once it is established."