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The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire
The military patrolling in the streets, an assassination, and a movement longing for escalation. America is teetering on the brink
 • Thomas Zimmer
Why the Extremists Took Over on the Right
Fear of a pluralizing America is fueling a radicalization out of a sense of weakness and besiegement
 • Thomas Zimmer
What Is America, and for Whom?
A white Christian ethno-state with strict hierarchies or a pluralistic democracy with egalitarian aspirations? American society has always been divided…
 • Thomas Zimmer
The American Government Sides with the Party of German Neo-Nazis
The MAGA-AfD alliance of extremists is not surprising, but it remains outrageous. If democracy is to prevail, America needs to establish a robust…
 • Thomas Zimmer
How the Republic Falls
Constitutional protections suspended. The government purging “alien enemies” and the “enemy within.” Three months into Trumpist rule, despotism is…
 • Thomas Zimmer
What Authoritarianism Means
Even critical observers underestimated the speed and scope of the Trumpist assault, they overestimated democratic resilience. What is America now, and…
 • Thomas Zimmer
MAGA, the German Far Right, and the Transnational Assault on Democracy
A reflection on the German far right, Elon Musk’s interference in the German election, and why the MAGA-AfD alliance isn’t nearly as irresistible as…
 • Thomas Zimmer
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