Watch his victory speech for how it gives zero time to the nonsense binary of "idpol" vs "class politics". The stars of that speech are the *multi-ethnic* working class. It's a speech grounded in the rich complexity of material reality, not two dimensional caricatures and facile abstractions.

Thank you! She did, and brilliantly. I'm so grateful....

Congratulations, Charlotte. It's a great book (I am half-way through). 🥂

She would warn that, as in ancient Rome and interwar Europe, economic elites mistook material abundance for stability, blind to the fact that their own complacency hastened the collapse they thought could not touch them".

Thanks to DC historian @rcturk.bsky.social for letting me know it was out!

is hollowing out the very institutions meant to safeguard democratic government and diplomatic norms (as fragile and compromised as they always were).

"If we extended Eileen Power’s critique of pre–World War II Europe to the contemporary scene in D.C., she might view Washington’s diplomatic world as a decadent spectacle. Lavish receptions and constant talk obscure how authoritarian rollback under Trump...