The New Yorker Magazine (№ 3rd & 10th January 2022) by David Remnick (Editor In Chief)

Author:David Remnick (Editor In Chief) [Remnick, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: culture, politics, art, jounalism, magazine, non-fiction
Publisher: Conde Nast
Published: 2022-01-02T13:00:00+00:00

before we kill these people?” Kirk, who

seemed to sense how poorly the mo-

ment was going to play on YouTube,

interrupted him. “I’m going to denounce

that,” he said. “We have to be the ones

that do not play into the violent aims

and ambitions of the other side.” In-

stead, he said, Idaho should ban vac-

cine mandates, eject some federal agen-

cies, and “pick and choose” what federal

laws it considers constitutional. When

the man asked again when violence was

required, Kirk urged him to be wary of

abetting his opponents’ conspiracy:

“They’re trying to get you to do some-

thing that then justifies what they ac-

tually want to do.”

The moment captured the perils of

living in a nation beset by information

warfare: if January 6th made anything

clear, it was that some number of Amer-

icans will eventually abandon a distinc-

tion between rhetorical battle and the

real thing. Bongino’s business thrives in

that borderland, the realm of thinking

where the best way to stay safe is to buy

the shotguns and holsters that he ad-

vertises on his show.

“I swear I’m usually good at this—I must’ve

One morning in November, he

put on too much lotion earlier.”

posted to Facebook a video of himself

in an especially grave mood. He wore

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a bright-red T-shirt from a sponsor:

Bravo Company, a manufacturer of mil-

itary-style rifles and accessories, which vatives, trying to have them jailed, try-cent just as fast, where freedom and lib-

promotes itself with a Latin motto that ing to have them sanctioned, bank-erty will reëmerge, and these people on

translates as “If you wish for peace, pre-

rupted financially, fired from their jobs. the other side of it, the Big Tech tyrant pare for war.” Hunched over the mi-This is all happening right now! And totalitarian fascists, their liberal bud-crophone, Bongino stared into the cam-

it’s all happening because of the Dem-

dies, the Biden Administration, they

era. “We are descending at an increas-

ocrat Party and the liberals.” He was will all— all—have to answer for this.”

ingly rapid rate into fascism,” he said. shouting now, waving a hand in front In the next three weeks, Bongino’s

“Chaos. You’re seeing the evaporation of the lens. “They are fascists! That’s video was watched on Facebook nearly of civil liberties in live time, the Bill of not in dispute!”

six million times. It attracted comments

Rights being used like toilet paper, the

He seemed to catch himself. “My from fans around the country, who heard Constitution being thrown out, the rapid apologies,” he said. “I don’t mean this to in his words a case for belief and an ar-spread of insane deadly ideas, like the sound rambling.” But, he explained, his gument to take action. A woman from defunding of the police and the aboli-experience with cancer had heightened Texas—whom Facebook had rewarded tion of our military.”

his sense of the stakes. It “put horse blind-

with a “Top Fan” badge, identifying her

The monologue, a snippet of a pod-

ers on me to see what really matters,” he as one of Bongino’s most active sup-cast episode first released in April, cen-

said. “The fight is all that matters, and porters—wrote, “I wonder when we will tered on his usual complaints about Sil-it’s all that should matter to you.

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