US politics
fromThe New Yorker
4 days agoHow Bad Is It?: Why an Antifascism Scholar Fled the Country
Mark Bray and Yesenia Barragan left the U.S. after Bray became a target of a right-wing doxing campaign and received death threats.
The United States is lurching toward neo-fascism with alarming speed, courtesy of President Donald Trump, who is using all the resources of the repressive apparatus of the U.S. state to stifle dissent and crush opposition to his extreme agenda. He is so keen on imposing his dystopian vision on the country that he has sought to criminalize anti-fascist struggle itself. How do we fight back?