Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael
Society & Culture
On this edition of Parallax Views, last month I spoke to journalist Jeffrey Sharlet, known for his books on the Christian Nationalist movement (The Family and C Street; the former has been made into hit Netflix documentary miniseries), to discuss his latest work The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. The book is a series of essays exploring the chaotic moment that Sharlet calls the "Trumpocene" and delves into everything from the January 6th insurrection and death of Ashli Babbitt to the Men's Rights Movement. Given he New Hampshire primary on January 23rd, I felt that now was the perfect time to release this prescient conversation.
In this conversation we cover a number of topics including:
- The "F Word"; or fascism
- The rise of the far-right in the U.S. and its global ascendancy
- Trump and Gnosticism; Jeff's citing of the Gnostic poem "Thunder Perfect Mind" in relation to the Trump/MAGA movement phenomena
- Jan 6th and the death of Ashli Babbit; what drove Ashli Babbit into Trumpism and the MAGA movement?
- QAnon and the power of narratives in mobilizing the American right-wing
- Revisiting Jeff's groundbreaking journalism on The Family, C Street, the Council for National Policy (CNP), and Christian Nationalism
- Christian Nationalism and Trumpism as radical reinterpretations of Christianity; the Church itself as not being the be-all-end-all of Christian Nationalism (it's much bigger than that)
- Jeff's experiences reporting on the MRA movement and the ways in which they start with some true observations (men have high suicide rates, custody issues, etc.) that are chucked away in favor of misogny and all-out attacks on feminism (even though some of their initial observations can also be found amongst feminist works such as Susan Faludi's Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man)
- And more!
REPLAY: The John McAfee Interview w/ Special Guest Co-Host Marlon Ettinger
Opus Dei, QAnon, and Operation Gladio w/ Raul Diego
Masonic History and Is QAnon an Op? w/ Robbie Martin
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America w/ Michael Hiltzik
America in Crisis from the 2020 Election to Foreign Policy w/ Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate Angela Walker
War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers w/ Benjamin Teitelbaum
The Sordid Saga of Donald Trump w/ David Cay Johnston
Trump's Plan, the Supreme Court, and the Election w/ Dr. Jack Rasmus
Double Feature Pt. 2: Deutsche Bank Report on “The Age of Disorder” w/ Charles Hugh Smith
Double Feature Pt. 1.: OnlyFans or OnlyScams? w/ Scott Stedman & Sophie Pierce
OnlyFans or OnlyScams? w/ Scott Stedman & Sophie Pierce/Deutsche Bank Report on "The Age of Disorder" w/ Charles Hugh Smith
The Unraveling of America w/ Anthropologist Wade Davis
Romania and the Political Economy of Fake News w/ Maria Cernat
The Press in the Age of Trump w/ Ken Silverstein of Washington Babylon
The Role of Big Money in Politics & 2020 Election Analysis w/ Dr. Thomas Ferguson
Fear and Loathing in the Authoritarian Nightmare w/ John W. Dean
J.G. Michael Talks Alternative Media on Along the Line
Freedom, the Social Bill of Rights, & the Federal Jobs Guarantee w/ Senatorial Candidate Richard Dien Winfield
Could 9/11 Have Been Prevented? w/ Former FBI Agent Mark Rossini
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