I expect to depart my mother’s house around 4 pm Pacific Time today, with stops to pick up laundry and mail. First stop tonight is in Reno.
Gilead
Donald Trump
Coup attempt
Jon Allsop doubts that Rupert Murdoch is really breaking up with Donald Trump, but perhaps is rather hedging his bets for a post-Trump future.[1] The point I’d make here is that white Christian nationalism is hardly inseparable from Trump;[2] though I continue to think it likely that Trump regains the presidency with the 2024 election,[3] what I call the Gilead competitive authoritarian regime project long precedes Trump and can be expected to continue even without him.
Jon Allsop, “Does Murdoch make the political weather or follow it? Yes,” Columbia Journalism Review, August 1, 2022, https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/murdoch_trump_influence.php
- [1]Jon Allsop, “Does Murdoch make the political weather or follow it? Yes,” Columbia Journalism Review, August 1, 2022, https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/murdoch_trump_influence.php↩
- [2]David Benfell, “Trumpism, Donald Trump, the January 6 coup attempt, and a smoking gun that may never be found,” Not Housebroken, January 28, 2022, https://disunitedstates.org/2021/12/14/trumpism-donald-trump-the-january-6-coup-attempt-and-a-smoking-gun-that-may-never-be-found/↩
- [3]David Benfell, “My 2024 forecast,” Not Housebroken, July 28, 2022, https://disunitedstates.org/2022/03/10/my-2024-forecast/↩