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Has a Nazi theorist’s vision of a world divided into ‘great spaces’ found a new advocate in Trump?

Carl Schmitt wanted empires that dominated the small countries in their orbits. But the US president’s chaotic actions are not that strategic, says Brendan Simms, director of the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge University

The Guardian - UK

Leaked files show far-right influences among Project 2025 applicants

Applicants reportedly cited Nazi theorists and other extremists as inspiration for Trump administration roles

The Guardian - US

The American New Right Looks Like the European Old Right

When conservatives reject constitutional limits on executive power and foment civil conflict, what exactly are they conserving?

Reason

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Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Accuses Trump of Borrowing Nazi Tactics

Former CIA Director John Brennan leveled a serious allegation against President Donald Trump, comparing Trump’s political maneuvers to those the Nazis.

Benzinga

Attorney general apologises for comparing Tories and Reform to Nazis

Badenoch and Farage seize on Richard Hermer’s ‘clumsy’ remark in speech made in defence of international law

The Guardian - UK

Labour minister backs down after comparing Reform and parts of media to Nazis

A LABOUR minister and close ally of Keir Starmer has drawn a parallel between calls to ignore international law from within both Westminster and the…

The National (Scotland)

Trump disdains conservatism. His governing philosophy is absolute power

The president’s clashes with the judiciary over immigration have launched a constitutional crisis. We’re headed toward a collision

The Guardian - US

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Latest Trump hire praised Nazi theorist

Andrew Kloster, chief lawyer in the government's HR office, has a history of making sexist and racist comments

Salon

JD Vance is a rightwing troll disguised as a populist. He could be our next vice-president

Having called Trump an ‘idiot’ and a potential ‘American Hitler’, the Republican senator now fawns over him

The Guardian - US

GOP revives Civil War legal theories

The crisis alongside the Texas border is just the latest instance of Republicans looking back to the Antebellum era

Salon

Left is Not Woke: a philosopher's plea for universalism and 'progress' is a frustrating polemic

Some years ago I was surprised to come across a person whose politics I knew to be conservative at a Greens fundraiser. When I asked him why he was there, he said he supported any gay candidate, irrespective of party.

The Conversation

Violence is the next Republican grift

Republicans know more death enhances their power

Salon

Why some think fascism is peak democracy

Many fascists think of themselves as advocating a more pure version of democracy, expert says

Salon

Why some people think fascism is the greatest expression of democracy ever invented

Warnings that leaders like Donald Trump hold a dagger at the throat of democracy have evoked a sense of befuddlement among moderates. How can so many Republicans – voters, once reasonable-sounding officeholders and the new breed of activists who claim to be superpatriots committed to democracy – be acting like…

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