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Democrats Have Created a Consultant-Driven Echo Chamber Original

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By Ryan Zickgraf
| Jacobin Verified
“The number one rule of political fundraising,” Evan Barker writes in the first line of Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative, “is to never, ever, under any circumstances, speak about it publicly.” Then she spends 288 pages talking about it, and it’s a wonderful thing that she does.
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Victims of Socialism

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By Ryan Zickgraf
| Damage Magazine
In his book Hyperpolitics, Anton Jäger describes contemporary left-wing movements as “bodies without organs” that exist “without an internal metabolism”; they can generate bursts of discourse and protest but cannot convert these moments into durable organization. This conundrum acquired an almost too-literal meaning at this year’s Socialism conference in Chicago, where the disappearance of a functioning political body coincided with an obsessive focus on bodies themselves.
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Are Men Okay?

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By Ryan Zickgraf
| Washington Monthly Verified
In the summer of 2023, the British journalist Jon Ronson’s adult son Joel attended what was billed as a party at a real-life castle in Connecticut. But there was no party. Inside the vast, nearly empty hall, the guests learned they’d wandered into the orbit of Chris Mark, an aging heir to a Gilded Age manufacturing fortune who had built a medieval-style stone monstrosity for his TikTok star daughter.
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