Mind Horizon

When Donald Trump was declared president of the United States on November 9, 2016, the nation erupted into a wild fervor of both joy and despair. As some people cried in front of their television screens, white supremacists celebrated, spray painting swastikas and hateful slogans on storefronts , cars, billboards , public transit, schools and parks across the country. Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke proclaimed that the election was a great victory for “our people.” In front of a crowd of 200 mostly young men a few blocks from the White House, Richard Spencer , the founder and leading ideologue of the alt-right, railed against Jews and quoted Nazi propaganda in the original German. America, he said, belonged to white people, whom he called the “ children of the sun,” a race of conquerors and creators who had been marginalized but now, in the era of President-elect Donald Trump, were “ awakening to their own identity.” As he finished, several audience members outstretched t...

On November 10, 2019, Bolivia’s first indigenous president was forced to resign just weeks after securing his fourth term in office. As he exiled himself to Mexico, right-wing Christian politician Jeanine Áñez, whose party won only 4.21% of the vote in the prior election , marched into the Presidential Palace wielding an absurdly large Bible and declared herself interim president of Bolivia. Soldiers roamed the streets of La Paz armed with rifles while fighter jets streaked across the sky. In a country which had suffered under the boot of colonial and neocolonial domination for five centuries, Evo Morales delivered fourteen years of relief. Apparently, that was too much for the capitalist class. Reactionaries like Áñez had been itching to rip power away from the indigenous majority and place it back in Christian hands long before the October 30 election, but a binding audit of the vote tally by the Organization of American States (OAS) gave them the pretext to oust the popular so...