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Teddy Wilson: Fascist Violence Accelerated
Episode 132 uploaded October 30: Sam Goldman interviews writer Teddy Wilson about the latest developments
from the fascist movement in the US, including the violent wing of the
anti-abortion movement, the January 6th Committee, and the wave of
antisemitism coming from prominent powers and from their ground
soldiers.
The episode refers to research by Carol Mason into the anti-abortion movement and links to antisemitism. Check out Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-life Politics.
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Teddy Wilson: The real lesson I think of January 6 is not just about what happened and how it happened and who planned and coordinated all that, but to understand that that's something that can happen again. The far right movement, the broad far right, is diverse and has lots of sectors and different ideologies and everything, but they learn from each other, they adapt from each other strategies and tactics...Within the larger scope, the far right more generally, are all kind of moving towards a similar political goal...It's incumbent upon you to do what you can to stand up to these various types of fascism...You can't refuse and resist fascism unless you have everybody working together.
Sam Goldman: One of the most insidious problems in the cultural conception of this moment is the individualism and individualization of these horrors; that (Elon) Musk is a problem, that Kanye West is a problem, that Mitch McConnell is a problem, that the guy who attacked Paul Pelosi is a problem. They are, but the conception that each has to be dealt with individually, and ahistorically, that is a problem. Because in reality, these are all part of an enmeshed fascist onslaught within a society that we are all part of, and all of these threads traveled directly through January 6, which no one with any power has been held accountable for.
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Here's some proof. @GoodPointKathy wrote: "A fantastic episode. He made the terrifying reality clear. They want total domination and now SCOTUS is fully complicit. But we should just be patient through decades of this? Hell no! Fight back, or else split the nation. I ain't living under their theocracy." Thanks, GoodPointKathy. If you want to know more about the episode that she's talking about, and who "he" is that makes this terrifyingly clear, you're gonna want to listen to our interview from last week with Andrew Seidel.
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