Originally published at: What’s Next Now That The CECOT Detainees Were Freed?
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Three Cases To Watch Friday’s repatriation of the Venezuelan nationals that the Trump administration had consigned to the hellishness of El Salvador’s CECOT isn’t the end of the story. While a host of political, legal,…
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Sue the motherfuckers.
Oh and f!r$t gets a bird:
Woodhouse’s Scrub Jay, photographed in Grand Canyon NP last fall.
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This lawlessness must be stopped. Enough is enough. Twice he has sworn to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.” Twice he has lied.
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This article on the political dynamics of domination and humiliation was eye-opening to me. I heartily recommend it even though it is a bit long.
These two sections really stood out to me.
Groups ‘below’ you in the hierarchy having more power makes them less susceptible to humiliation (the forced recognition of dominating power). This, to many, is unacceptable. Women pushing back against harassment or abuse, social norms against open racism, and service workers earning more, all limit the ability to humiliate. MAGA is a movement of parasites seeking hosts.
This non-economic, non-instrumentally-rational side to the Trump movement is often swept awkwardly under the label ‘populism.’ It is imagined that it comes from similar discontents as left populism. That there is an ‘anti-establishment’ vibe out there that is channelled in different directions, that Bernie and Trump are drawing water from the same well. Using humiliation as a political concept however, we can see that the emotional base of the movements are not only different, but opposite—directly opposed to each other. Right populism is driven by the desire to humiliate, left populism by not wanting to be humiliated. The anger that fuels protest movements often comes from experiences of humiliation.
As an aside, I think this explains a lot of left anger at liberals. When they say ‘middle-class liberal’ they’re imagining someone who has not had experiences like this [shit jobs open to humiliation] and does not understand—indeed, arrogantly dismisses—the perspective of those who have. It isn’t a fair characterization of all, or even most, liberals (loads of us have also had shit jobs), but it is of some affluent libs, and it does make them incredibly frustrating to talk to. While there will always be people who will try and stereotype liberals, we could do a better job at avoiding this image, at not letting people like this be the face of the movement.
Toby Buckle is a British Political Philosopher with a degree from University of York. He comments on both American and British Politics.
Humiliation Case in point.
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Today’s Heather & Paul:
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PBS is under attack by the Fascists. This great song tells all you need to know. “You don’t eat the fruit the day you plant the seed.”
@kelaine I think you’ll love this song.
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About that.
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appointee
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MM:
Rubio ordered the State Department to “stop commenting on the fairness, integrity and legitimacy of foreign elections, a major shift away from a decadeslong practice of promoting democratic elections abroad"
“You think our country’s so innocent?”
- Philosophy of Donald J. “Epstein Files” Krasnov
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None of the noises that come out of that guy’s ugly mouth are anything more than noises. No oath sworn, no promise made, no assertion of fact, means anything more than “the thing I’m supposed to say now that will help close the deal.”
Not one.
He lies like a fish swims.
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