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Category Archives: America
The Emotional Logic Behind Young Men Bouncing Between Online Far-Right Spaces And Self-Help Culture
A lot of people treat the pipeline between far-right online spaces and self-help culture as a political problem. It’s not. It’s an emotional pattern. Young men bounce between these worlds because both offer the same thing in different costumes: a … Continue reading
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The Future Of Christian Nationalism
Christian nationalism gets talked about as if it’s one coherent thing, but it isn’t. Its future depends on two very different forces that share a name but almost no substance. One is actual Christian theology. The other is a set … Continue reading
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The Right’s Masculine Revival
There is a real masculinity revival on the right, but it lives next to a lot of LARP and a lot of marketing. You have to sort out who is speaking from lived experience and who is selling a costume … Continue reading
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Should Jews Be Alarmed Yet? – with Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss, and Dan Senor
The whole thing is a fight over whose pain is “real,” whose resentment is noble, and whose is decadent. I’ll break it into themes, then give a timestamp guide at the end. I. Two victim scripts in Shapiro’s opening 4:03–7:34 … Continue reading
The MAGA Tribes
The right doesn’t split along the simple MAGA vs establishment line. That’s the surface story. The real fractures run through the movement itself. MAGA is a coalition of micro-tribes that compete for attention, cultural authority, and the right to define … Continue reading
Right-wing topics for a Sunday morning
I ask ChatGPT: “I’m interested in American RW politics. I do a Sunday morning YT live stream. Give me some potential topics.” It suggests: How the right actually fragments. Not MAGA vs establishment, but the micro-tribes inside MAGA. Who draws … Continue reading
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Happy Thanksgiving!
A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish … Continue reading
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What Is The Trump Doctrine?
Gemini says: The Trump Doctrine is best understood not as a rigid ideological system, but as a set of operating principles rooted in “America First” nationalism, transactional diplomacy, and a rejection of the post-WWII liberal international order. In his second … Continue reading
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Fascism Comes to America: A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture by Bruce Kuklick
ChatGPT says: Bruce Kuklick surveys how the term fascism (and “fascist”) has been used in the U.S. across journalism, popular culture, politics, and academia. He contends that in the U.S. context the word has become “little more than a political … Continue reading
The Charisma Wars: Fuentes, Tucker and Shapiro in a Post-Liberal, Post-Christian America (11-23-25)
01:00 Why So Much Positive Coverage Of Dick Cheney Last Week? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16508703:40 Hal Brands on US-China 2026, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfTpN6nLEo006:00 I Like This Trump Peace Plan For Ukraine, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16506318:00 Porn Stars & The Rootless Elite, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16506645:00 Rony Guldmann Revisits Liberal Fascism, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16505259:00 … Continue reading
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