For two generations, a Soviet enemy forced the North Atlantic right to keep its ugliest strands coalition-respectable, and a booming 1990s economy drowned out the rest. Then the enemy vanished, the boom failed unevenly after 2008, the spark that had been lit by Rothbard, Buchanan, Francis, and... 1/
(PARTIAL-)CROSSPOST: WILLIAM DAVIES: Review of "When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists & the Origins of Trumpism" by John GanzDavies's original title is a quote from Murray Rothbard his goal was to "Repeal the 20th Century"; how 1992's losers became 2016-2028's winners; or, a neo-Foucauldian genealogy of MAGA, DOGE, & al...braddelong.substack.com