An op-ed aggressively refuting the contrarian faux-left position that calling Trump a fascist is some sort of liberal psyop designed to distract the left.
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A link to a (free to read) Patreon Blog essay that looks at online Twitter drama, declaring war on Bidenist neoliberalism and why anti-identity politics populism is cancer for the left.
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“Well how do *you* define fascism then?” Put your mouth guard in princess because I’m done playing around…
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A link to a short essay on Can’t You Read about why fascism will survive Trump; includes a recommended reading article showing fascist power networks in action during the Covid-19 anti-lockdown protests.
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A December 2020 Film Session featuring Some More News about why America has always been intimate with the fascist backlash against racial and social progress.
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A (now redundant) roundup of all of Nina’s smaller posts in October and November; including Facebook Journal and Can’t You Read links we’ve never shared until now on ninaillingworth.com.
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A November 2020 Film Sessions mini-essay that talks about Baldwin vs Buckley and the tragedy of American amnesia in the struggle for racial justice.
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Biden’s rolling out his cabinet, the media is tossing out bullsh*t and Rahm Emanuel might be on his way back into government over the strong objections of Rolling Stone senior writer Jamil Smith; not that Biden gives a damn of course, since the machine bought Smith’s soul a long time ago.
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A longer Book Blog talking about why you should read Michael Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds (or really any book he has written) over on Can’t You Read.
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“Now that we’re sailing into a new-old era of American politics, Nina revives one of her old blogging Features with a new, time-saving twist. Mendacious media minions can run, but then can’t hide from “Great Moments in Media Muppetry” on our Media Madness Blog; today’s first feature contestant? Vox’s professional TV-watcher, Aaron Rupar.
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With Trump’s coup seemingly ground to a halt, it’s time to celebrate the end of the fascist moment – isn’t it? Not so fast says analyst Nina Illingworth. By combining some brief observations on the seemingly-doomed Trumpist “chicken coup,” and a link to a vitally important article by Indi Samarajiva about why even a failed reactionary coup is a disaster for a society that calls itself a democracy, our intrepid author debunks the still quite dangerous idea that we’ve survived the Swine Emperor and everything is going to go back to normal soon.
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