Fascism Gets Thrown a Curve
A radically reshaped presidential race, and an excerpt from my new book, Resisting the Right, out now, on the choice before us.
So the twists are not exactly stopping, are they?
In my last two entries for this blog, I recounted the startling turns that the presidential race has taken in the last four weeks, from the disaster of Biden’s debate performance, to the Supreme Court’s no-look pass that allowed Judge Aileen “Employee of the Month” Cannon to dismiss felony charges against Trump for stealing government secrets, to SCOTUS’s outrageous ranks-closing to protect Trump from prosecution on charges of trying overturn the 2020 election (and granting him the powers of a dictator should he win again), to the assassination attempt on Trump’s life that for many might as well have been a coronation, to the Leni Riefenstahl-ready informercial that was the Republican convention. I don’t have to tell you, it had been a brutal month for the prospects of democracy in the United States.
So the latest 115mph curveball — Joe Biden’s heroic, legacy-defining decision to step aside in favor of Kamala Harris — was yet another wild twist, and a very very welcome one. Oceans of ink have already been spilled on the topic which I won’t add to here.
Well, maybe a little.
