assistant prof of religion and anthro @northeastern | Book w/ @FordhamPress | Current projects: trad futurisms/digital dissidents
Jul 27, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
🧵on monarchism; If Trump’s comments about a voteless future terrify you, you need to understand this is exactly what the far right wants. I lived with a far right group for a year in the #Appalachian Mountains. They were monarchists who glorified Putin. divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/arti…2. They and others like them believe in a traditional autocratic future. For some it’s a fascist future. culanth.org/fieldsights/th…
May 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1/“As Americans, they believed that supporting Franco was critical in fulfilling a patriotic and providential duty to protect Western Christendom from godless communism.” @ClementsAustinJ writing on American Francoites during the Spanish Civil War. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
2/ Franco has become popular again in American far-right discourse. Far right actors are looking to historical and contemporary politics figures and structures abroad who they can model in their futurecraft for America.
Oct 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 1/4“Several speakers articulated a vision of the United States where domestic manufacturing is not only revived and globalization reigned in, but where traditional Christian morality is restored to a central place in society and mainstream culture . . .”
2/4 In current studies of the New Right or Far Right little attention is placed on traditionalism as an ideology of worldbuilding. Scholars mention “trads” but often fail to move beyond aesthetics or theology. This is a problem. Traditionalism is a political ideology.
