Zack Beauchamp

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You know what’s great? Seeing a friend do their thing and realizing they’re just so intellectually ready for this moment.

This is a @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social praise tweet.

Genuinely hard to count the number of ways this could go predictably wrong - let alone the unpredictable ones!

I would like to hang out on a social media site with many many more people like Henry and many many fewer people like the blue-anon slogan shouter he is addressing. Where is that site? Calgon take me away.

How to stop a dictator I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

What we’re reading: “How to stop a dictator”by @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social ⬇️

https://www.vox.com/politics/479924/democracy-us-brazil-south-korea-poland-backsliding-resilience

The open antI-Semitism this has unleashed, visible in the horseshoe right and left over at the other site, is something to behold

Happy to talk with @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social for this piece. We discussed the pathways and contours of a worst-case outcome. Not particularly likely, of course, but a scenario you have to at least contemplate.

How does the Iran war end? Regime change isn’t likely. Here’s what is.

I talked to a lot of smart experts about how the Iran war might end. The consensus was that Trump's idea of regime-change-by-bombing was a "fantasy"

www.vox.com/politics/481...

Wrote this piece in 2016, and it's sadly aged perfectly www.vox.com/world/2016/5...

Trump’s foreign policy is premised on the assumption that the most simplistic, read-Zinn-for-the-first-time leftist caricature of the US-led world order was actually true

One more time, you are 100% free to use the term "USian" but you're not changing anyone's mind about imperialism and you're not driving us angry with an insult. You're just guaranteeing that no one here takes you seriously.

I block people who use it because it's clear they have nothing to say.

How to stop a dictator I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

"For the United States to make it out of its own crisis, we need to take this lesson to heart: not marginalize discussion of Trump’s threat to democracy, but bring it to the fore," writes @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social. Great piece. www.vox.com/politics/479...

The US has launched a war on Iran. But why? The short answer is nobody really knows. Vox’s @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social explains why the incoherence at the heart of Trump’s latest, biggest war is particularly scary.

You can read more coverage here: www.vox.com/politics/481...

Trump’s case for the Iran war makes no sense The scary incoherence at the heart of Trump’s latest, biggest war.

We are at war for no good reason because we created a presidency with unbounded war powers and then elected a madman to it www.vox.com/politics/481...

This, too, is anti Semitic, and also completely insane.

Trump’s case for the Iran war makes no sense The scary incoherence at the heart of Trump’s latest, biggest war.

Never has a president launched a war of this scope for such incoherent reasons www.vox.com/politics/481...

The United States has just begun a massive, open-ended war — and nobody knows why

Dude’s gotta bend his knees way further back

America after Trump How democracies fall — and how they can come back

A bunch of gift links for @vox.com incredible series "America after Trump." You need to read this, I promise you — especially @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social's article "How to stop a dictator," which should be required reading for American citizenship right now.

www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/america-af...

i love this because even the meme is self-referentially elder millenial

How I feel doing vertical video as an Elder Millennial

The threat of media capture here is real, but it is just not as easily accomplished in a country with an extremely diverse media environment where outlets do not rely heavily on government advertising as a subsidy

Jamelle is right. I've spent years writing about the Hungary-US parallels, and this is one of the key areas where the US has more points of democratic resilience

He presided over an evil war, the entrenchment of the greatest long-term threat to Israel’s survival (occupation), demolished democratic institutions, the rise of unprecedented internal division between Israelis, and now the collapse of the once- impregnable foundations of a superpower alliance

Congrats to Benjamin Netanyahu, the worst prime minister in Israeli history by a wide margin

I meant to say unironically, but it actually kind of works either way

Beating Alex Jones is ironically very impressiv!

This is important because Americans on the left have a tendency to idealize Canada and Europe — based largely on their objectively superior welfare states.

But this often strips these places of their more complex reality, turning other countries into narcissistic morality plays for Americans.

In terms of routine life, the real story is tradeoffs.

In Canada, for example, health care is mostly free — which is great! Health outcomes are generally better.

But long wait times are huge problem. I've been waiting since last summer for a surgery I could have gotten in the US in a week.

By some metrics, like GDP growth, the US is considerably more dynamic than other OECD countries. And you can feel that on the ground; the quality of goods and services available in the US is on-average higher.

But that's if you can afford them: US is noticeably more unequal.