Something has been lost

Dalton Mattus is the personification of American Doom, a normal man radicalized, who shows how small town America is often taken by right-wing authoritarianism.

As prominent national media continue to largely fail to take authoritarian threats to democracy seriously, news broke this week that Media Matters has been forced to lay off staff under legal pressure from far-right billionaire Elon Musk and Republican attorneys general. Authoritarian right-wingers like Musk and the vast majority of the Republican party…