Brad DeLong
Author of "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the 20th Century". Too online since 1995. Sometime Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. UC Berkeley Professor.
- Sewing circles & sections: Judith Shklar’s early Harvard wars of gossip, fairness, & drift as she found a way: READING: Judith Shklar as Proto-Feminist in the 1950s <https://braddelong.substack.com/p/reading-judith-shklar-as-proto-feminist> 2026-02-03 Tu
- They must begin with an abject apology, declaration of repentance, and agreement to be guided for **all** their future voting decisions by somebody who is not such an easily grifted moron: A New Rule for Social Interactions with Anyone Who Ever Voted for or Thought of Voting for Donald Trump... 1/
- ...< braddelong.substack.com/p/a-new-rule... > 2026-02-01 Su ##a-new rule-for-social-interactions-with-anyone-who-ever-voted-for-or-thought-of-voting-for-donald-trump ##public-reason ##donald-trump-dementia #donald-trump #neofascism #kennedy-center #kennedy-center-closing 2/
- ...#donald-trump-need-for-a-guardian-ad-litam #grift-politics #authoritarian-populism #guardian-ad-litem #trump-social-media #truth-social 3/END
- In his first term, the analogues of Hermann Göring, Josef Goebbels, and Reinhard Heydrich did not show up for Donald Trump. Now, in Trump's second term, JD Vance is auditioning for the slot(s): JD Vance’s invented stories about Haitians in Springfield (“overwhelmed” city, pet-eating, crime... 1/
- ...disease) were amplified by right‑wing media, then laundered back into “facts” by Vance and Trump, culminating in Trump’s debate lie about Haitians eating pets and his promise of “large deportations” from Springfield, which DHS is operationalizing, removing Haitians’ TPS on pretextual... 2/
- ...grounds. Fantasy, Nazi mobilization, online memes, bomb threats, then bureaucratized ethnic cleansing—this is what Vance is about to try to test in Springfield, Ohio. America's soul really is at stake here: CROSSPOST: TIMOTHY SNYDER: Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio: Nazi Lies in Vance's America... 3/
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View full thread... #nazi-lies-in-vances-america #ethnic-cleansing #springfield-ohio #haitian-community #big-lie-politics #deportation-machine #temporary-protected-status #propaganda-and-power #democracy-at-risk #resist-and-record #blood-tribe-nazis #never-again-now #america-soul-at-stake 5/END
