Bulletin — Democracy in America: The Latest Farce
Today in Bulletin: A heartwarming tale about Nazis, Republicans, and election laws . . . Plus: Completing Marx’s complete works . . . America will lose, China will win . . . And: Socialism or barbarism, millennials edition.
Arthur Jones (L) joins other neo-Nazi protestors at a demonstration organized by the National Socialist Movement outside the grand opening ceremonies for the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, April 19, 2009 in Skokie, Illinois.Scott Olson / Getty
Bulletin is a chronicle of socialist comment and analysis from Jacobin’s Seth Ackerman.
Democracy in America: The Latest Farce
Here’s an instructive story about America’s Kafkaesque election laws — this time from Illinois, where an avowed Nazi running against the “two-party, Jew-party, queer-party system” has won a Congressional GOP primary thanks to his status as the only candidate on the ballot.
Politico reports that the Illinois GOP’s inability to stop far-right kook Arthur Jones “has been an enormous embarrassment to the party — and to state party Chairman Tim Schneider — for months.” (Even in a Trumpified GOP, it seems, railing against the “Jew-party system” is a bridge too far. But then, what else would you expect from the Jew-party system?)
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