Zack Beauchamp
@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social
Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic, and a '25-'26 distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.
This is so obviously insincere, in such flagrant contradiction with what he said yesterday, that you have to assume Heritage's PR team wrote it for him
October 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This is so obviously insincere, in such flagrant contradiction with what he said yesterday, that you have to assume Heritage's PR team wrote it for him
Charter member of the Leopards Eating People's Faces party
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Charter member of the Leopards Eating People's Faces party
Tolkien is more-or-less explicit about this in the forward to the Second Edition of LOTR, where he rejects the popular reading of the book as a World War II analogy
October 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Tolkien is more-or-less explicit about this in the forward to the Second Edition of LOTR, where he rejects the popular reading of the book as a World War II analogy
The tech right is at once obsessed with Tolkien and utterly unable to comprehend what his books are actually about
October 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The tech right is at once obsessed with Tolkien and utterly unable to comprehend what his books are actually about
Me, one year ago: If Trump wins, he will use the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division to try and undermine the fairness of elections
Justice Department, today:
Justice Department, today:
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Me, one year ago: If Trump wins, he will use the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division to try and undermine the fairness of elections
Justice Department, today:
Justice Department, today:
American politics is in a totally good place
October 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
American politics is in a totally good place
Excellent piece, one of the best I've read on big-picture world politics in a long time. The thesis boils down to: what if the future is weakness? www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
October 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Excellent piece, one of the best I've read on big-picture world politics in a long time. The thesis boils down to: what if the future is weakness? www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
October 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
If Trump did the overthrow of Salvador Allende
October 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
If Trump did the overthrow of Salvador Allende
I don't think it counts as "covert" after you blab about it to the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
October 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I don't think it counts as "covert" after you blab about it to the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Cosign this whole piece from @joshtpm.bsky.social, but especially this conclusion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/has-t...
October 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Cosign this whole piece from @joshtpm.bsky.social, but especially this conclusion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/has-t...
<Stephen Miller staffer busts through the door>
"Sir, we have a code orange on our hands. Antifa has weaponized the furries."
"Sir, we have a code orange on our hands. Antifa has weaponized the furries."
October 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
<Stephen Miller staffer busts through the door>
"Sir, we have a code orange on our hands. Antifa has weaponized the furries."
"Sir, we have a code orange on our hands. Antifa has weaponized the furries."
This post-World War II column shows that even a genius like W.E.B. Du Bois had some terrible takes
October 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This post-World War II column shows that even a genius like W.E.B. Du Bois had some terrible takes
Perfect timeline positioning (cc @dandrezner.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social)
October 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Perfect timeline positioning (cc @dandrezner.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social)
I wrote than in April, and Trump's numbers have indeed gone down since
September 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I wrote than in April, and Trump's numbers have indeed gone down since
To put this more analytically, there are two kinds of Trumpist authoritarianism: a subtle Orbán model and a more brutal Bukele model.
The first one could, as I've argued, actually work in America. The second won't — and this speech fits squarely in that bucket.
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
The first one could, as I've argued, actually work in America. The second won't — and this speech fits squarely in that bucket.
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
September 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
To put this more analytically, there are two kinds of Trumpist authoritarianism: a subtle Orbán model and a more brutal Bukele model.
The first one could, as I've argued, actually work in America. The second won't — and this speech fits squarely in that bucket.
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
The first one could, as I've argued, actually work in America. The second won't — and this speech fits squarely in that bucket.
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
September 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I just cannot imagine turning the actual cruelty of deportations — the destruction of lives, the rending of families, the awful conditions of ICE prisons — into a "to be sure" sentence before you quote someone who professionally cheers such cruelty talking about how the real victims are the wealthy
September 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I just cannot imagine turning the actual cruelty of deportations — the destruction of lives, the rending of families, the awful conditions of ICE prisons — into a "to be sure" sentence before you quote someone who professionally cheers such cruelty talking about how the real victims are the wealthy
Crucially, there is STILL TIME TO STOP THIS.
The Trump administration has proven legally incompetent and vulnerable to concerted pushback. But this only works if people who care about democracy refuse dooming, and realize they still have agency. www.vox.com/politics/462...
The Trump administration has proven legally incompetent and vulnerable to concerted pushback. But this only works if people who care about democracy refuse dooming, and realize they still have agency. www.vox.com/politics/462...
September 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Crucially, there is STILL TIME TO STOP THIS.
The Trump administration has proven legally incompetent and vulnerable to concerted pushback. But this only works if people who care about democracy refuse dooming, and realize they still have agency. www.vox.com/politics/462...
The Trump administration has proven legally incompetent and vulnerable to concerted pushback. But this only works if people who care about democracy refuse dooming, and realize they still have agency. www.vox.com/politics/462...
Prior to Charlie Kirk's death, Trump had taken only halting and ineffectual steps to punish the political opposition.
Now they're threatening liberal NGOs and billionaires with federal investigations, using similar tactics to those that brought Columbia to heel www.vox.com/politics/462...
Now they're threatening liberal NGOs and billionaires with federal investigations, using similar tactics to those that brought Columbia to heel www.vox.com/politics/462...
September 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Prior to Charlie Kirk's death, Trump had taken only halting and ineffectual steps to punish the political opposition.
Now they're threatening liberal NGOs and billionaires with federal investigations, using similar tactics to those that brought Columbia to heel www.vox.com/politics/462...
Now they're threatening liberal NGOs and billionaires with federal investigations, using similar tactics to those that brought Columbia to heel www.vox.com/politics/462...
I saw, during my reporting in Hungary, how much putting friendly oligarchs in charge of the media matters in authoritarian consolidation.
That's starting to happen in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/462...
That's starting to happen in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/462...
September 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I saw, during my reporting in Hungary, how much putting friendly oligarchs in charge of the media matters in authoritarian consolidation.
That's starting to happen in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/462...
That's starting to happen in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/462...
The puzzle pieces are starting to fit together — Trump's individual authoritarian policies adding up to a concrete system that could render elections durably unfair www.vox.com/politics/462...
September 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The puzzle pieces are starting to fit together — Trump's individual authoritarian policies adding up to a concrete system that could render elections durably unfair www.vox.com/politics/462...
Poland's recent experience is a rich case study. This article about the "post-illiberal trilemma" is excellent www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/dem...
September 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Poland's recent experience is a rich case study. This article about the "post-illiberal trilemma" is excellent www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/dem...
It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it
September 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it