Gilead
Donald Trump
Coup attempt
Fig. 1. “Jake Angeli (Qanon Shaman), seen holding a Qanon sign at the intersection of Bell Rd and 75th Ave in Peoria, Arizona, on 2020 October 15.” Photography by TheUnseen011101 [pseud.], October 15, 2020, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
If I had to bet on who will be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024, right now, and largely based on the Washington Post reporting,[1] I’d have to pick Ron DeSantis.
What seems less in doubt it that the contest will be between white Christian nationalism and everybody else. What the Washington Post shows, and as Molly Jong-Fast correctly (despite her headline) understands, is that the Republican Party is the white Christian nationalist party, even if no longer quite so much the party of Donald Trump,[2] just as the Democratic Party remains the neoliberal party, having co-opted Bernie Sanders, the “Squad,” and anyone claiming to be “progressive.”
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Isaac Stanley-Becker, “Arizona’s top prosecutor concealed records debunking election fraud claims,” Washington Post, February 22, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/22/arizona-election-fraud-claims-mark-brnovich/
Isaac Arnsdorf et al., “Trump’s grip on the Republican base is slipping — even among his fans,” Washington Post, February 23, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/23/trump-support-declining-2024-election/
Molly Jong-Fast, “The Fever of Trumpism Shows No Sign of Breaking in 2024,” Vanity Fair, February 23, 2023, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/donald-trump-trumpism-ron-desantis-2024-election
Work
Fig. 1. Yeah, this is me. The sign says, “If you’re whining about a labor shortage, STOP ignoring my job applications!” And the QR-code leads here. Photograph by author, January 16, 2023.
Starbucks chief executive officer Howard Schultz has long demonstrated an antipathy toward unions.[3]
Nonetheless, a judge ruled that the National Labor Relations Board had failed to show a nationwide pattern of Starbucks retaliation for union activity. An order forbidding such retaliation continues to apply to an Ann Arbor store.[4]
That the burden of proof has been placed where it is in this matter reflects a neoliberal imagination, utterly unsupported by evidence, of corporations as good and as benevolent toward workers. Corporations should rather be presumed to be hostile toward unions and toward organizing activity until proven otherwise.[5]
Tim Ryan, “Judge Drops Nationwide Injunction Against Starbucks,” Law360, February 23, 2023, https://www.law360.com/employment/articles/1579417
Self-driving cars
Fig. 1. Photograph by Mark Doliner, August 1, 2012, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
Kris B. Mamula, “Pittsburgh driverless truck startup Locomation to close,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 23, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/business/tech-news/2023/02/23/locomation-carnegie-mellon-university-aurora-argo-autonomous-self-driving/stories/202302230089
Work
Fig. 1. Yeah, this is me. The sign says, “If you’re whining about a labor shortage, STOP ignoring my job applications!” And the QR-code leads here. Photograph by author, January 16, 2023.
Travis Bland, “NC Strip Club Says Models Can’t Deny It Info On Photos,” Law360, February 22, 2023, https://www.law360.com/consumerprotection/articles/1578843
Spencer Jakab, “Lousy Tippers Are Just Misunderstood,” Wall Street Journal, February 22, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/lousy-tippers-are-just-misunderstood-63094163
Daniel de Visé, “Twenty high-paying jobs that don’t require a college degree,” Hill, February 22, 2023, https://thehill.com/business/3863716-twenty-high-paying-jobs-that-dont-require-a-college-degree/
Illiberalism
Fig. 1. Photograph by Joachim F. Thurn, August 1991, Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F089030-0003, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE.
Ishaan Tharoor, “Jimmy Carter’s warning: Without peace, Israel must face ‘apartheid,’” Washington Post, February 24, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com//world/2023/02/24/jimmy-carter-israel-apartheid-palestine-peace/
- [1]Isaac Arnsdorf et al., “Trump’s grip on the Republican base is slipping — even among his fans,” Washington Post, February 23, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/23/trump-support-declining-2024-election/↩
- [2]Isaac Arnsdorf et al., “Trump’s grip on the Republican base is slipping — even among his fans,” Washington Post, February 23, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/23/trump-support-declining-2024-election/; Molly Jong-Fast, “The Fever of Trumpism Shows No Sign of Breaking in 2024,” Vanity Fair, February 23, 2023, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/donald-trump-trumpism-ron-desantis-2024-election↩
- [3]Greg Jaffe, “Howard Schultz’s fight to stop a Starbucks barista uprising,” Washington Post, October 8, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/10/08/starbucks-union-ceo-howard-schultz/↩
- [4]Tim Ryan, “Judge Drops Nationwide Injunction Against Starbucks,” Law360, February 23, 2023, https://www.law360.com/employment/articles/1579417↩
- [5]David Benfell, “Hatred for workers,” Not Housebroken, October 9, 2022, https://disunitedstates.org/2022/10/09/hatred-for-workers/↩