Friday Links
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- Is Donald Trump a fascist? Well, no. H is, or at least plays, a racist and xenophobic reactionary with authoritarian tendencies — not exactly an unusual American political type — but “fascist” probably obscures more than it reveals.
- Rahm Emmanuel’s post-post mature apologies: far too little, far too late.
- What the president can, and can’t, do. This will be a useful link the next time someone responds to the point that the president can’t force legislators to pass legislation they don’t want to pass by saying “so it doesn’t matter who wins the next election and I can just vote Green right hehindeedy,” a line of argument I wish was a strawman.
- On anorexia and false narratives.
- Ed Kilgore with your annual reminder that the pundit wet dream that almost certainly won’t happen is a “contested convention,” not a “brokered convention.”
- Dwight Garner’s review of a new book about Alex Haley compelled me to look up his 1962 interview with Miles Davis. Pretty fascinating stuff.