Alan Elrod

Arkie. President & CEO, Pulaski Institution. Columnist & Contributing Editor, @LiberalCurrents.com

Other words: @thebulwark.com, @ms.now, @foreignpolicy.com, @theunpopulist.net

Writing a book on global right-wing Christianity (Broadleaf)

He/Him

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Last Notes

2026-03-27 19:15:09 UTC

The fact that “character attacks are not persuasive anymore” is at the heart of our present crisis in this country.
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2026-03-26 13:26:37 UTC

With another No Kings coming up, a reminder that irony and coolness will never save us. Cringe is good. www.liberalcurrents.com/cringe-is-go...
Cringe is Good, Earnestness is...

2026-03-25 22:39:02 UTC

“But would Iran want to end the war now? In hard power dynamics, this is the strongest position the Islamic Republic has ever been in, the most leverage they have over the United States since the 1979-80 hostage crisis.”
Must-read analysis from @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
#nevent1q…u0gk

2026-03-19 13:39:55 UTC

Slopulism–and all populism, really—is terrible for democratic politics.
But I won’t condescend to anyone by pretending individuals don’t have agency. We re-elected Trump. We have to live with that. www.liberalcurrents.com/iran-slopuli...
Iran, Slopulism, and the Etern...

2026-03-05 14:12:37 UTC

Trump and his ilk are positively obsessed with bodies—with their mangling, their alteration, their sexuality, and their destruction.
I wrote about it for @liberalcurrents.com@bsky.brid.gy
www.liberalcurrents.com/pervert-poli...
Pervert Politics: Trumpism’s B...

2026-03-01 15:38:02 UTC

“The most relevant question is “will this use of military force make things better, enough to be worth the death and suffering it’ll impose?””
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy with a must-read today at @liberalcurrents.com@bsky.brid.gy www.liberalcurrents.com/internationa...
International Relations Is Not...

2026-02-26 14:21:59 UTC

What we saw Tuesday night from the Republican Party was the legislative counterpart to what ICE is doing in the streets. Bullying. Menacing. Illiberal.
The party is just a fascist gang.
www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-state...
Trump’s State of the Union Rem...

2026-02-25 03:55:08 UTC

I actually think the behavior of the Republicans in the audience has been more noteworthy than Trump’s speech itself.
The braying, boorish jeers and yawps of a party fully given over to fascism.

2026-02-25 02:15:13 UTC

Look, it’s incredibly far down the list, but what a pathetic thing to have this narcissist’s free-associating, fascist grandpa rhetoric ring in our 250th year

2026-02-09 21:33:40 UTC

So I just listened to @ariberman.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy articulate the same theory @jvl.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy has: that there’s a real chance the Trump admin is going to lean on Maduro or offer him some sort of deal to say Venezuela did interfere in the 2020 elections.
open.spotify.com/episode/1cPG...
Trump Starts the Steal

2025-03-31 11:59:44 UTC

I wrote about the Kristi Noem’s El Salvador prison video and its relationship to the horrific practice of lynching postcards. Read at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/kristi-noem-...
Kristi Noem Made A Lynching Po...