William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His most recent book is Stormy Weather: Pagan Cosmologies, Christian Times, Climate Wreckage (Fordham, 2024)
We now live during the time of the fasci-clown. In post-election analyses, all the discussions of the appeal of his racism and patriarchy capture important things. But they may not speak starkly enough to why these sentiments run so deep and cut so broad a swath, though for different reasons, through both the white donor class and so much of the working class . Neither do they explain how and why growing segments of the populace laugh so much at Trump's fascist humor.
The stagnation of the working class, the problems facing large cities, the 'uppity-ness' of women of color, the snarky-ness of the liberal snowflake, and the loss of 'black jobs,' are all tied to the red thread of immigration.
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