Eliot Sumner
@eliotsumner.bsky.social
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
-James Baldwin
-James Baldwin
It’s actually fine, no one sane is at risk and a few MAGAs might wake up
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
It’s actually fine, no one sane is at risk and a few MAGAs might wake up
I wrote an essay analyzing the DHS social media strategy, see my pinned post
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I wrote an essay analyzing the DHS social media strategy, see my pinned post
The English word in that context is democratic, not democrat
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The English word in that context is democratic, not democrat
Yes, and his post was the entire ethnonationalist strategy in miniature: the fashwave aesthetic, the Globalist slur, and the 'just a joke' defense, all converging at once. See my pinned post
November 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Yes, and his post was the entire ethnonationalist strategy in miniature: the fashwave aesthetic, the Globalist slur, and the 'just a joke' defense, all converging at once. See my pinned post
4/4 Vance’s remark activates the foundational American colonial myth.
He uses the invented savage to justify his exclusionary politics. This mindset frames the world as a battle where enemies must be purged.
It is a defense of empire.
He uses the invented savage to justify his exclusionary politics. This mindset frames the world as a battle where enemies must be purged.
It is a defense of empire.
October 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
4/4 Vance’s remark activates the foundational American colonial myth.
He uses the invented savage to justify his exclusionary politics. This mindset frames the world as a battle where enemies must be purged.
It is a defense of empire.
He uses the invented savage to justify his exclusionary politics. This mindset frames the world as a battle where enemies must be purged.
It is a defense of empire.
3/4 Vance groups "child sacrifice" and "brothels" to create a single, generalized moral monster. This is a racialized lie.
He invents the perfect "savage" (Pearce) to justify the "regeneration" (Slotkin). The lie sanctions the violence.
The generalization sanitizes colonialism.
He invents the perfect "savage" (Pearce) to justify the "regeneration" (Slotkin). The lie sanctions the violence.
The generalization sanitizes colonialism.
October 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
3/4 Vance groups "child sacrifice" and "brothels" to create a single, generalized moral monster. This is a racialized lie.
He invents the perfect "savage" (Pearce) to justify the "regeneration" (Slotkin). The lie sanctions the violence.
The generalization sanitizes colonialism.
He invents the perfect "savage" (Pearce) to justify the "regeneration" (Slotkin). The lie sanctions the violence.
The generalization sanitizes colonialism.
2/4 Vance calls this conquest an "accomplishment." This is Slotkin's thesis: Regeneration Through Violence.
The American myth claims civilization is born from a violent, purifying act against the savage. Vance recasts cultural destruction as redemptive moral necessity. Violence is the point.
The American myth claims civilization is born from a violent, purifying act against the savage. Vance recasts cultural destruction as redemptive moral necessity. Violence is the point.
October 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
2/4 Vance calls this conquest an "accomplishment." This is Slotkin's thesis: Regeneration Through Violence.
The American myth claims civilization is born from a violent, purifying act against the savage. Vance recasts cultural destruction as redemptive moral necessity. Violence is the point.
The American myth claims civilization is born from a violent, purifying act against the savage. Vance recasts cultural destruction as redemptive moral necessity. Violence is the point.