• capital@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    At first I was asking myself why he would admit this but then I realized Trump voters read this and think, “finally, they’ll hurt the right people” and assume they will not be affected.

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      17 days ago

      Also, they may still be happy if they are affected, as long as the outgroups they hate most are affected worst.

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          Oh, absolutely. Umberto Eco pointed out that this is how fascism works.

          The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

          The Dems are both craven lickspittles who are not manly enough to drive a truck, and yet strong enough to control everything even if they haven’t been in power for a decade.

          As we can see, fascism is bullshit for idiots.