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Laura K Field
@lkatfield.bsky.social
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Writer, political theorist in DC. My book, Furious Minds, about the MAGA New Right is available for pre-order. Bylines at The Bulwark, The New Republic, Politico.

www.lkfield.com

American University, Illiberalism Studies at GW, Niskanen Center.
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TODAY! DC peeps, join us. Wondering how we got to a place where the Republican party is currently debating whether to mainstream a Nazi influencer?! Laura’s got answers.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Today at 4pm! Join @libankerdc.bsky.social, Tim Shenk, Matthew Dallek and I to discuss FURIOUS MINDS at GW's Elliott School.

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Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, Book Launch and Roundtable
Donald Trump is not a big thinker, but his 2016 presidential victory presented a grand opportunity for people who are, and it set off a radicalization and reconfiguration of the American conservative ...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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adamweinstein.bsky.social
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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princetonupress.bsky.social
Next week, Nov 16 at 5:00pm EST, Busboys and Poets welcomes @lkatfield.bsky.social for a free, in-person discussion of her book Furious Minds. With @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, Field will explore the radical conservative intellectual movement shaping Donald Trump's agenda. RSVP: buff.ly/QNeevN6
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November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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jamellebouie.net
oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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jamellebouie.net
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
gordondarroch.bsky.social Gordon Darroch @gordondarroch.bsky.social · 2d
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
nrc.nl NRC @nrc.nl · 3d
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
I'm a few chapters into @lkatfield.bsky.social's great new book on MAGA intellectuals and I thought the close of her introductory chapter made a very important point about the dangers of talking about MAGA as it it is an intellectual desert. It's more like a refulgent swamp of shitty, toxic ideas.
I have been writing about New Right intellectuals since 2019. The most common response I get when I mention this to liberals is something along the lines of "Trumpy intellectuals? Now that's an oxymo-ron!" or "Hahaha, I think you mean dumb fascists!" While the impulse is understandable, it's also mistaken and counterproductive. Many on the left assume that the only serious reason to support the GOP has to do with finance and tax returns, and that right-wing voters are racists. But people's motives are mixed, and America's reactionary intellectuals are armed with more than greed and preju-dice. They also have reasons and arguments that they appear to care about, whole epochs and libraries full, ready-to-hand. What the writer Matthew Rose says about the radical right is true of the New Right, too: Almost everything written about the "alternative right" has been wrong in one respect. The alt-right is not stupid; it is deep. Its ideas are not ridiculous; they are serious. To appreciate this fact, one needs to inquire beyond its presence on social media, where its obnoxious use of insult, obscenity, and racism has earned it a reputation for moral idiocy. The reputation is deserved, but do not be deceived. Behind its online tantrums and personal attacks are arguments of seductive power.* The New Right's questions, ideas, and arguments may not be of the sort to convince the average New York Times subscriber, but they are eftec-tive in their contexts, and it's not like they are easy to refute. Education and specialization being what they are today, the people I focus on in this book know more than your average JD or political science PhD about early American political history and about the history of the so-called West, and of course many of them have other specialties and areas of expertise besides. I am generally not an admirer of the people I write about here, but it would be foolish to deny that they are smart and INTRODUCING THE MAGA NEW RIGHT 25 well-informed in their own way. It's obviously possible to be highly knowledgeable and to have terrible judgment or dangerous politics. To presume otherwise— to believe that there is nothing to learn from these thinkers and no compelling noneconomic reasons to support something like Trumpism-is naive and dangerous. It misunderstands and fetishizes intelligence, by presuming that real brains never chase after raw power. It fails to see the possibility and power of genuine intellectual fanaticism—and the allure of people who have strong convictions backed by strong arguments. And it assumes a deep sameness about one's fellow citizens and so refuses to contend with real, protracted ideological disagreement and conflict. In other words, it refuses to reckon with what might be the greatest challenge posed by political life: the fact that people really do think differently and disagree, about just about everything, and especially about the most important things, like the meaning of life, God, and the soul, and what is good. Above all else, the naive view overestimates liberalism's immediate appeal and underestimates liberalism's fragility. Growing right-wing extremism has not emerged in a vacuum but in many instances is a re-sponse, however misguided, to real problems, and to the real vulnerabilities of liberal democracy. It reflects some of the actual failures of modern liberal politics and economics, of modern liberal culture, and of the corporate neoliberal academy. One of the major advantages of spending time with the New Right is that it allows us to see these challenges more clearly, and to think through future possibilities for a pluralistic liberal order more deeply. And with some urgency.
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated
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Trump's winning 2024 coalition has evaporated
Claims of a conservative realignment of non-whites, the working class, and young voters have been highly exaggerated
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November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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For anyone in DC, please come to this book launch for Furious Minds on Nov. 18, discussion with @lkatfield.bsky.social, @ositanwanevu.com, me and more

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Book Launch : Laura Field, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
Join us at AU for the launch of Laura Field's new book "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right."
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November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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thomaszimmer.bsky.social
Friends, “Furious Minds” is out!

@lkatfield.bsky.social wrote an important book - one that truly is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the rightwing intellectual scene, the defining ideas on today’s extremist Right, and the ideological traditions they draw on.

Please read:
Furious Minds
“[An] excellent new book.”—Michelle Goldberg, New York TimesThe story of the radical conservative intellectual movement shaping Donald Trump’s agenda—and how it threatens American freedoms, values, an...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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ffs, @nytimes.com
INTERESTING TIMES WITH ROSS DOUTHAT Did Women Ruin the Workplace?
November 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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sharonk.bsky.social
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our country—pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists—are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already
November 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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jamisonfoser.bsky.social
This from @gregsargent.bsky.social is exactly right.
newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Donald Trump's authoritarianism and the punishing reality of everyday life under his rule are inextricably linked.
Trump's tariffs, his killing of the tunnel project, his potentially illegal federal-worker firings, his DOGE bloodbath, and more show that the economic carnage he's unleashed is inseparable from his consolidation of autocratic power. Democrats can say these things are bad because they're both authoritarian abuses of power and have terrible economic consequences, while vowing to stand up to that lawlessness—and do well with the working class.
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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pbump.com
Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.
royalpratt.bsky.social Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 5d
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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sarahposner.bsky.social
Wow
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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hannahgais.bsky.social
Here’s the CEO of the Federalist calling to “crush” the left. (So far it’s not working.)
Jack Posobiec reposted Sean Davis @seanmdav • 58m You can't. You have to crush them. And unfortunately that's really hard to do when a chunk of your own party is as eager to deplatform you as your enemies are. ... Jack Posob... @JackPosob... • 1h POSOBIEC: How are we supposed to unite with a party where hundreds of thousands of their people just voted for a candidate who said he wants to kill our children?
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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hannahgais.bsky.social
The right is responding to major wins for Democrats in Virginia as you would expect.
Just to recap the last two months: -Charlie Kirk shot in the throat on stage -Thousands of leftists spend weeks celebrating openly -Leftist militants take to the streets committing and calling for more violence -Attorney General candidate for Virginia expresses his desire to murder conservatives and watch their children die -Democrats voters turn out en masse to vote for him Do you understand who your enemies are yet?
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Check out my conversation with @lkatfield.bsky.social about her fabulous new book "Furious Minds"!
The Making of the MAGA New Right with Laura K. Field and Jerome Copulsky
YouTube video by The 92nd Street Y, New York
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November 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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larryglickman.bsky.social
I am so excited to have received @lkatfield.bsky.social’s FURIOUS MINDS in the mail today. Can’t wait to dig into this one.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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In Furious Minds, @lkatfield.bsky.social tells the story of the thinkers of the New Right—and their powerful assault on American freedoms, values, and ideals.⁠
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🎧📕 The #audiobook, read by the author herself, is now available.

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Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right by Laura K. Field, read by the author.
November 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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A must listen to [email protected] @lkatfield.bsky.social Brad Onishi is joined by Dr. Laura Field, author of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, for a fascinating look into the intellectual roots of the MAGA movement and its rising political stars, including JD Vance
The Intellectual Forces Behind JD Vance + Vance Divorce Rumors
Podcast Episode · Straight White American Jesus · 11/03/2025 · 56m
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November 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Conservatives 2016-2024: dumb libs think words are violence

Conservatives in 2025: mean words are literally violence bsky.app/profile/robe...
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6d
From Bovino's deposition: (1) he calls protestors "violent" if they articulate views hostile to ICE, even if no violence is manifested; (2) he instructs his forces to attack and arrest protestors who express "hyperbolic comments," which is to say, criticism of ICE and Bovino.
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM