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Sociologist. Professor. Very amateur photographer. Sometimes poet. Political junkie. Depressed Democrat.

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What Do American Liberals Believe? Let's "Ask a Liberal!"

What Do American Liberals Believe?
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20.02.2026 22:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Now Is the Time to Leave MAGA... ...and to make amends for having enabled Trump.

Now Is the Time to Leave MAGA...
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06.02.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This Machine Kills Fascism A simple tool in all our pockets can help push back against tyranny

This Machine Kills Fascism
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14.01.2026 22:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Non-Compliance of Jonathan Ross And the danger it poses to democracy

The Non-Compliance of Jonathan Ross
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12.01.2026 00:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Trump is a Menace to American Democracy His administration threatens the legitimacy of the American experiment

Why Trump is a Menace to American Democracy
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09.01.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Male Cheerleaders and the Hypocrisy of the Anti-Trans Movement The panicky reaction to the Viking's male cheerleaders highlights the regressive sex and gender roles that fuel the anti-trans movement

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17.08.2025 22:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Male Cheerleaders and the Hypocrisy of the Anti-Trans Movement The panicky reaction to the Viking's male cheerleaders highlights the regressive sex and gender roles that fuel the anti-trans movement

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17.08.2025 00:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Male Cheerleaders and the Hypocrisy of the Anti-Trans Movement The panicky reaction to the Viking's male cheerleaders highlights the regressive sex and gender roles that fuel the anti-trans movement

Exactly! I make that point in this essay. open.substack.com/pub/robertbu...

17.08.2025 00:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Male Cheerleaders and the Hypocrisy of the Anti-Trans Movement The panicky reaction to the Viking's male cheerleaders highlights the regressive sex and gender roles that fuel the anti-trans movement

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17.08.2025 00:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Male Cheerleaders and the Hypocrisy of the Anti-Trans Movement The panicky reaction to the Viking's male cheerleaders highlights the regressive sex and gender roles that fuel the anti-trans movement

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17.08.2025 00:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Male Cheerleaders and the Hypocrisy of the Anti-Trans Movement The panicky reaction to the Viking's male cheerleaders highlights the regressive sex and gender roles that fuel the anti-trans movement

Male Cheerleaders and the Hypocrisy of the Anti-Trans Movement
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17.08.2025 00:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wealth Inequality is Un-American Americans value hard work and individual achievement, not unearned privilege

"The persistence of wealth inequality across generations is ideologically inconsistent with the American dream. Reducing wealth inequality will help the United States live up to its cultural values of individualism, hard work, and meritocracy."

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03.08.2025 21:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Micro-Dynamics of Fascism A small case study of anti-trans propaganda

The Micro-Dynamics of Fascism
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27.06.2025 00:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Commentary: MAGA extremists demonize your friends and neighbors Pride month is a joyful time to come together to express love and support for the LGBTQ members of our community. Recently, however, such expressions of love have been marred

My latest op-ed in the Davis Enterprise explains how frighteningly easy it is for zealots to dishonestly manipulate information and reframe it online to scapegoat innocent people as monsters, whipping up violent anger against them.

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24.06.2025 03:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was thinking the same thing. It was an appropriately miserable little spectacle that made the leader of the strongest nation on Earth look like a little boy pretending to rule with toy soldiers.

15.06.2025 16:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How to Scapegoat Innocent People A case study of using the right-wing social media ecosystem to spread hate

#USPolitics

The "us vs. them" dynamic of fascism encourages MAGA activists to view their political rivals as the enemy, justifying unethical distortions of the truth that dehumanize others - inviting violence against them.

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14.06.2025 22:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How to Scapegoat Innocent People A case study of using the right-wing social media ecosystem to spread hate

How to Scapegoat Innocent People: A Case study of using the right-wing social media ecosystem to spread hate.

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14.06.2025 16:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dear MAGA A letter from your fellow Americans

Dear MAGA
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18.05.2025 22:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wealth Inequality in the United States Should we allow just a few people to hoard all the cookies in their private cookie jars?

Wealth Inequality in the United States
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09.05.2025 05:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dear Republicans Now is the time to defend your country against tyranny

Dear Republicans,

It's time to take a stand against the tyranny you've always feared.

#USPOLITICS

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16.04.2025 04:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Agree. Also, the point is not to make MAGA vote Democrat. The few independents and Republicans who see through Trump's authoritarianism can make the case that the separation of powers, rule of law, blind justice, free speech, and pluralistic democracy are what truly make America great.

29.03.2025 19:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I guess what should really surprise is how long it took this country to mimic China and Russia. It was nice while it lasted.

29.03.2025 19:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

When you aggressively assert executive power to change the content of museums to make an ideological point about how great America is, you may just be fundamentally misunderstanding the whole ideological point of America.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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28.03.2025 05:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When you aggressively assert executive power to change the content of museums to make an ideological point about how great America is, you may just be fundamentally misunderstanding the whole ideological point of America.

28.03.2025 05:13 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The entire Trump administration assumes that MAGA are essentially idiots and will believe anything. This scandal may be the one in which a hint of realization begins to seep through to some of Trump's base that the emperor has no clothes. Not that it will change their support for him, however.

27.03.2025 00:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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26.03.2025 18:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Free Political Communication Advice Democrats are spinning their wheels. Here is an idea that might get some traction

yup. Here is an idea: open.substack.com/pub/robertbu...

26.03.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Free Political Communication Advice Democrats are spinning their wheels. Here is an idea that might get some traction

@lincolnproject.us

The Dems and their allies need to think outside the box. They are spinning their wheels when they should be easily getting traction against Trump 2.0. Here is a free idea for a creative political communication team:

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26.03.2025 16:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Does MAGA Still Love Trump? Trump has promised to protect their social status in a changing society.

MAGA elevated Trump as their tribal totem. They can’t separate their own interests from his. Because they assume these interests are synonymous with the interests of the nation, they undermine pluralistic democracy and enable (even require) authoritarianism.

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24.03.2025 21:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Does MAGA Still Love Trump? Trump has promised to protect their social status in a changing society.

MAGA elevated Trump as their tribal totem. They can’t separate their own interests from his. Because they assume these interests are synonymous with the interests of the nation, they undermine pluralistic democracy and enable (even require) authoritarianism.

open.substack.com/pub/robertbu...

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