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(A surprisingly measured article by Mark Bray.)
The challenge lies in organizing against the growth of far-right and
authoritarian politics while simultaneously highlighting the
continuities they share with the political center — the overlap between
the “exception” and the “norm.” In this case, that means opposing the
wall with all of our might while remembering that the struggle for a
world without borders does not stop with Trump. It means that Trump’s
national emergency ought to be resisted as if it were a slide into
further authoritarianism whether that proves to be the case or not. As
Walter Benjamin famously wrote at the peak of the fascist menace, “the
tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘emergency situation’ in
which we live is the rule.”
https://truthout.org/articles/is-trumps-national-emergency-a-step-toward-fascism/
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