Welcome back to Lucid, and hello to all new subscribers. Tune in at 4pmET today for my Substack Live with legal commentator Adam Klasfeld, who has been posting such incisive work about Donald Trump’s $1.776 (wink-wink) billion slush fund on his All Rise News Substack. There is much to discuss from the legal and autocratic studies points of view.
Everyone is welcome to join. Just download the Substack app, enable notifications, and watch for the join link from Ruth Ben-Ghiat/Lucid at 4pmET. I will also email all Lucid subscribers at 4pmET with a join link. If you can’t attend, I will circulate the video tomorrow.
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I want to share the great conversation with the smart and incisive Wajahat Ali, publisher of the newsletter The Left Hook. We talked about the MAGA endgame of converting our multiracial democracy into a White Christian ethnostate and autocracy; Trump’s unprecedented corruption; his fixation with his ballroom-bunker (sign he is reaching “the bunker stage” of power), and much more. As you see from the video, Waj makes me laugh even when the subject matter is grim. I highly recommend his book Go Back To Where You Came From, which blends memoir and political commentary about living amidst rising xenophobia and anti-Muslim hatred.
