Reässessing the “West” from John Winthrop to Marco Rubio:

**From Plato to NATO to MAGA: Marco Rubio’s Myths & the Real "Western Alliance”**
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/from-plato-to-nato-to-maga-marco>
2026-02-16 Mo
# #from-plato-to-nato-to-maga-marco-rubios-myths-the-real-western-alliance
# #neofascism
#from-plato-to-nato-to-maga
#marco-rubios-myths-the-real-western-alliance
#marco-rubio
#western-alliance
#mythmaking
#city-upon-a-hill
#american-exceptionalism
#us-foreign-policy
#liberal-democracy

Reässessing the “West” from John Winthrop to Marco Rubio:

**From Plato to NATO to MAGA: Marco Rubio’s Myths & the Real "Western Alliance”**
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/from-plato-to-nato-to-maga-marco>
2026-02-16 Mo
# #from-plato-to-nato-to-maga-marco-rubios-myths-the-real-western-alliance
# #neofascism
#from-plato-to-nato-to-maga
#marco-rubios-myths-the-real-western-alliance
#marco-rubio
#western-alliance
#mythmaking
#city-upon-a-hill
#american-exceptionalism
#us-foreign-policy
#liberal-democracy

I am an old man. I regularly yell at clouds. "Elvis is alive! How 'AI' stunts modern mythmaking" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/elvis_solaris_ai_mythmaking.html (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/elvis-is-alive-how-ai-stunts-modern.htmltracked ) #elvis #solaris #unix #ping #networking#AI #mythmaking #artificialintelligence #aislop #history

I am an old man. I regularly yell at clouds. "Elvis is alive! How 'AI' stunts modern mythmaking" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/elvis_solaris_ai_mythmaking.html (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/elvis-is-alive-how-ai-stunts-modern.htmltracked ) #elvis #solaris #unix #ping #networking#AI #mythmaking #artificialintelligence #aislop #history