"Everything about the breakout appeal of #RichMenNorthOfRichmond is steeped in an evangelical culture of bellicose ideological confrontation [..] If any howl of backlash-themed provocation issues from a Southern-branded bard like Anthony or Aldean, it’s automatically stamped as 'authentic' as it moves down the culture-trust production line."

#ChrisLehmann

The New Bard of the Right

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/oliver-anthony/

#OliverAnthony #NewRight #MAGA #FarRight #AltRight #ProloWashing #USPol #USMedia

"In a juster, saner world, a Google search for the term 'racist show trial' would promptly yield footage of the despicable vote in the #GOP-led #Tennessee legislature to expel two Black members for the offense of doing their jobs: using their position to advocate for desperately needed #GunControl legislation."

#ChrisLehmann

The #TennesseeGOP’s Shameful Expulsion of 2 Black Legislators

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tennessee-legislature-expulsion/

#Tennessee3 #TennesseeThree #USPol #JustinJones #JustinPearson #GloriaJohnson

"The whole reason Fox News exists is because Roger Ailes worked in the Nixon Administration, which regarded the existing press as the enemy. And Fox was founded to institutionalize the Nixon counter-narrative."

- #ChrisLehmann

#FoxNews and the Quicksand of Lies

#media #RightWingMedia #FarRightMedia #DominionVFoxNews #DominionLawsuit #ElectionDeniers

https://www.thenation.com/podcast/culture/tom-lehmann-foxnews/

"#Musk’s purchase of #Twitter might find its closest analog in Kane’s decision to build a Chicago opera house to showcase the decidedly equivocal vocal talents of his mistress, Susan Alexander—a vanity bid to launch himself into the role of culture arbiter based solely on an obscene accumulation of wealth."

- #ChrisLehmann

"Citizen Musk"

#TwitterTakeover #ElonMusk #TechOligarchs #SiliconValley #SocialMedia

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-twitter/