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Now that the Senate has decided to avoid the pesky issue of calling witnesses in an impeachment trial, Congress will get back (after the break) to legislative business, and the first order of business will be President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion (with a T) “American Rescue Plan.” Congress got the ball rolling on the plan when both chambers passed a 2021 budget resolution instructing various committees to come up with their respective pieces of a final bill that would include up to $1.9 trillion in new spending and revenue loss (tax cuts). Those bills were released late last week, so this will not be a deep dive into every little detail (thank goodness). Instead, today we’ll focus on the bigger picture, including the debate that’s erupted about the plan’s size, timing, and effects, and try to answer one simple question: “what, exactly, are we rescuing here?”
As we confront rightwing extremism in our own time, the history of American fascist sympathy reveals a legacy worth reckoning with.
The Machine Has a Soul: American Sympathy with Italian Fascism
Katy Hull
On the eve of the November 1938 midterm elections, President Franklin Roosevelt delivered a forceful radio address. “If American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens,” he remarked, “then Fascism and Communism . . . will grow in strength in our land.” While opposition to communism was a standard current in U.S. politics, the rise of American sympathy with fascism had become an urgent concern for Roosevelt. Among the most visible sympathizers of the time was the anti-Semitic radio broadcaster Charles Coughlin, who regularly reached tens of millions of listeners, but Roosevelt and his administration knew fascist sympathy was diffuse among prominent Americans. From Henry Ford to the este
One People, One House: ‘The truth about race IS there is no race’
Updated Mar 18, 2021;
Posted Feb 14, 2021
In this photo from 1994, WGBY Channel 57 hosts a forum, “Healing Racism,” co-produced by the Springfield Newspapers. From left are Westfield State University professor Kamal H. Ali, Dr. John Woodall, a psychiatrist and faculty member at Harvard University, Gloria Caballer-Arce, vice principal of John F. Kennedy Middle School in Springfield, and Paul Herron, of the University of Tennessee Medical School. Jim Madigan is the moderator.The Republican file
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By Kamal H. Ali | Professor emeritus, Westfield State University
The morning after Donald J. Trump’s stunning presidential electoral victory in 2016 my very smart lawyer-daughter observed, “Abbie, I think we simply underestimated the level of white rage in the country following the Obama years.”