The far right paints a narrative of war and civilizational conflict coming to a head. It meets the demand for disavowal by fabulating easier problems with easier solutions, but doesn't fail to acknowledge just how bad things are. The promises of new liberalism now sound very hollow compared to the trust that they elicited in the or the hope that they could elicit in the nineties. And if any one will have a hard cell to make, it will be the left.
How neoliberal conditions create popular constituencies, ideologies, and subjectivities among poor and working-class people for a violent, mean, and repressive neoliberalism—and how those reactionary politics from below converge with those generated from above. Political theorist Rodrigo Nunes analyzes Bolsonarismo (the ideology and politics surrounding far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro) and far-right politics everywhere.
Read Rodrigo's essays:
radicalphilosophy.com/article/of-what-is-bolsonaro-the-name
publicbooks.org/are-we-in-denial-about-denial
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