Статью "We’re All Soviets Now" Фергюсон опубликовал в июне - до того, как Байден вышел из гонки, и можно было вдоволь брюзжать про геронтократию https://www.thefp.com/p/were-all-soviets-now
Пример зашоренности - любимое среди российских троллей сравнение уголовных дел Трампа с Гулагом: "I think I recognize Soviet justice when I see—in a New York courtroom—the legal system being abused in the hope not just of imprisoning but also of discrediting the leader of the political opposition."
Но еще более тупое сравнение - приравнивание интеллигенции (научной и культурной элиты) к проклятой советской партийной номенклатуре. Один-в-один поздний СССР.
Главными критиками тезиса Фергюсона выступили не демократы, а его правые друзья: Джона Голдберг и Кэти Янг. Рожденная в СССР Янг писала:
"YES, OF COURSE THERE ARE VERY REAL and serious problems in American society in 2024. Some of those problems come from the left. A lot come from the right—including, most pressingly, a presidential candidate who openly declares his contempt for American democratic institutions and norms, and who demonstrated this contempt in action a little over three years ago. The recent articles by Ali and Ferguson in the Free Press, and Andrews’s postscript in the American Conservative, add up to the same argument: The left is plunging America into a catastrophe that either reflects Soviet-style subversion (perhaps unintentional, as Ali stresses in a reply to me denying that she is a conspiracy theorist) or presages Soviet-style collapse. This isn’t quite up there with the 2016 “Flight 93 Election” essay as a clarion call to vote for Trump or lose America. But the gist is the same: Stopping the left is the essential imperative. This isn’t a diagnosis of real problems, even if some valid points are made along the way. It is—to use a quintessentially Soviet word—agitprop." https://www.thebulwark.com/p/no-we-are-not-in-soviet-america-niall-ferguson
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Date: 2024-11-13 11:20 am (UTC)https://lafeber.livejournal.com/104956.html?thread=755452#t755452
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Статью "We’re All Soviets Now" Фергюсон опубликовал в июне - до того, как Байден вышел из гонки, и можно было вдоволь брюзжать про геронтократию https://www.thefp.com/p/were-all-soviets-now
Пример зашоренности - любимое среди российских троллей сравнение уголовных дел Трампа с Гулагом: "I think I recognize Soviet justice when I see—in a New York courtroom—the legal system being abused in the hope not just of imprisoning but also of discrediting the leader of the political opposition."
Но еще более тупое сравнение - приравнивание интеллигенции (научной и культурной элиты) к проклятой советской партийной номенклатуре. Один-в-один поздний СССР.
Главными критиками тезиса Фергюсона выступили не демократы, а его правые друзья: Джона Голдберг и Кэти Янг. Рожденная в СССР Янг писала:
"YES, OF COURSE THERE ARE VERY REAL and serious problems in American society in 2024. Some of those problems come from the left. A lot come from the right—including, most pressingly, a presidential candidate who openly declares his contempt for American democratic institutions and norms, and who demonstrated this contempt in action a little over three years ago.
The recent articles by Ali and Ferguson in the Free Press, and Andrews’s postscript in the American Conservative, add up to the same argument: The left is plunging America into a catastrophe that either reflects Soviet-style subversion (perhaps unintentional, as Ali stresses in a reply to me denying that she is a conspiracy theorist) or presages Soviet-style collapse. This isn’t quite up there with the 2016 “Flight 93 Election” essay as a clarion call to vote for Trump or lose America. But the gist is the same: Stopping the left is the essential imperative.
This isn’t a diagnosis of real problems, even if some valid points are made along the way. It is—to use a quintessentially Soviet word—agitprop."
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/no-we-are-not-in-soviet-america-niall-ferguson