MAGA Stole Animal Rights from the Left

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Astra Taylor is a writer, activist, and co-author of End Times Fascism, and Aaron Regunberg is a climate lawyer and contributing editor at The New Republic. They join Current Affairs to discuss how the right has begun co-opting animal welfare politics, why the left has neglected animal rights, and how abandoning climate politics risks leaving an opening for a much darker ecofascist response to ecological crisis.

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0:00-8:25 How MAGA is co-opting animal rights

8:25-14:18 P’Nut the Squirrel and the right’s animal politics

14:18-18:29 MAHA and the political vacuum on animal welfare

18:29-33:05 Why animal rights belong in left politics

33:05-37:59 Why the left stopped talking about climate

37:59-42:44 Ecofascism and the politics of climate collapse

42:44-49:14 Making climate politics impossible to ignore

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