Author Sharon E. Cathcart ✅ on Nostr: Quote from article: Weaponized nostalgia is an extremely potent tool in the hands of ...

Quote from article: Weaponized nostalgia is an extremely potent tool in the hands of reactionaries, an important vehicle to transport rightwing ideas into the mainstream and make the reactionary project more palatable. It is so pervasively seductive because it builds on and amplifies widespread anxieties regarding the fundamental political, social, and cultural changes America has been undergoing over the past few decades.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomaszimmer/p/moralizing-nostalgia-leads-to-bad?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email