Notes: Why Do I Keep Bringing All This Stuff Up?
We know the U.S. has some bad history. What are we supposed to do with it now?
Amid the Trump administration’s chaotic, scorched-earth dismantling of both fundamental republican institutions and the modern service state on which we all depend, the question arises, I mean for me, of what point there is in exploring national antecedents for the administration’s effort to impose—not mere oligarchy—but oligarchy enabled and enforced b…