Seth Cotlar
Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. sethcotlar.substack.com
- Broke: Drinking raw milk Woke: Swimming in raw sewage
- I would be interested to see a study that compared the number of clergymen in the US who've been convicted or credibly accused of sex crimes in recent years to the number of MS-13 members in the US (which I've seen estimated at under 10,000).
- In 1959 the son of a Portland evangelical preacher attended Portland State but left soon after having his "Christian faith assaulted." Seeking a Christian-friendly environment, he enrolled at the school run by his dad, an anti-UN, America First Catholic basher with ties to Klan preachers.
- Ya gotta wonder, where on earth would a probation officer in rural Oregon get the idea that casually giving Nazi salutes is just a fun, jokey sort of thing one can do around other people with impunity? [cough] Elon [cough] www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort...
- It brings me no pleasure to point out that at the Constitutional Convention James Madison clearly stated that he wanted a carve out for “emoluments that fly.” He would have been totally fine with this. He also said in Federalist 88 that Presidents can sell as many meme coins as they want.
- Props to Donald Trump: every day, in every way, his administration is finding dynamic new ways to wallow in corruption. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
- Interesting thread. It made me think about how one longstanding problem for the Democratic Party since the 1980s has been its passive reliance on “the moral arc of the universe” to take us into a more just future…as if history was just naturally on “our side.” But moral arcs don’t bend themselves.
- Why are Dems—champions of every major policy advance since the New Deal—so deeply wedded to status-quo, poll-tested politics? The answer lies in Stafford Beers' 5-level Viable Systems Model: They lack Systems 4 & 5 dealing with future coordinating it with present. 1/25 www.salon.com/2025/05/10/w...
- Reposted by Seth CotlarSo the line from Lutnick is to "let them eat Trump Truth Social posts."
- Today I learned that the author of this 1977 op-ed was the most important college mentor for the current head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
- The Oregon Republican Party is abhorred by two things: 1) antisemitism and 2) the way a cabal of Soros-funded radical left globalists are secretly trying to destroy traditional American civilization.
- Reposted by Seth CotlarTrump Absent-Mindedly Snacks On Constitution
