Trump's America is governed by necropolitics [View all]

Trump’s America is governed by necropolitics
SNAP's suspension is part of MAGA's campaign to tear our society apart

By Chauncey DeVega
Senior Writer
Published November 4, 2025 6:45AM (EST)


(Salon) Over forty years after its release, Bruce Springsteen’s seminal 1982 album “Nebraska” continues to feel prescient and powerful. Long beloved by music critics and Springsteen devotees, the record has seen a resurgence with director Scott Cooper’s recent biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,” which explores the singer’s spiritual pain and struggle with depression while he was making “Nebraska.”

With stark songs about a mournful and lost working class serving a broken American dream accompanied by despair and violence, “Nebraska” could serve as a soundtrack to our age of Trump — and to the country’s long-unresolved demons that brought the American people to this great nadir.

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Over the weekend, more than 42 million Americans did not receive their Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Tens of millions of children, the elderly, disabled and other vulnerable people now face a brutal fact: They don’t have enough to eat.

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Poverty and hunger are forms of structural violence that stunt lives, limit upward social mobility and raise the odds that a hungry child will one day end up in prison. They cause a range of physical, emotional and psychological harm, including shortened lives and death.

Poverty is a public policy choice. As sociologist Matthew Desmond said in a 2023 interview with Ezra Klein of the New York Times, “Poverty is not just a line. It’s not just an income level. Poverty is often pain and sickness.” ....................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/04/trumps-america-is-governed-by-necropolitics/