trying to wrap my head around why everything in the US is turned into a political battle--from the most trivial culture war stuff to major national crises such as the response to COVID-19. Is it a Gramscian thing where a ruling class in crisis is unable to maintain ideological hegemony?
Partially it’s a strategy the far right are using called “confrontational politics” as outlined in the book of the same name: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4026039-confrontational-politics
Oh wow, that's basically "Ben Shapiro: The Book". I wonder what has pushed the right to adopt "confrontational politics."
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