FiveTrump's rhetoric is increasingly mirroring Nazi talking points, and nobody is paying attention, an expert on extremism warns
FracturedfoxIt’s a dumb headline because there are definitely people paying attention, just not the right people.
0110010001100010The people that support him are paying attention too, and it’s exactly what they (think they) want to hear. They assume under a dictatorship they will be immune from ramifications.
As with everything else, they vote against their own best interests but don’t realize it.
It’s kinda sad that they don’t realize Trump hates them.
His followers are listening too. The issue is that to them “sounds like Hitler” is a feature not a bug.
Please stop spamming this dumb article.
Jason Stanley has been talking about this for yearsl.
Patricia Roberts-Miller has been talking about demagoguery generally also since forever, which laid the conditions for Trump to rise as the eminent demagogue. In fact, I prefer her analysis over Stanley’s. Stanley, and many historians, think of fascism from the top down: Mussolini or Hitler showed up and charismatically led otherwise good people into evil.
Not so. People were already scapegoating Jews and minorities and dissatisfied with their lives. Hitler and Mussolini just stepped into the a pre-existing national political role. Similarly, Trump’s racism and fake news and whatnot were already trends in American society. He just took what was there an ran with it.
It’s why, even if Trump goes to jail, American fascism will stick around. There are plenty of regular people willing and able to undermine liberty for their personal security.
If it looks like a nazi, walks like a nazi, smells like a nazi, well…
Sterile_TechniqueI mean… he looks like a morbidly obese oompa loompa, can barely walk up a flight of stairs, and by recent accounts smells like a combo of a McDonald’s restroom, BO, and sour milk.
…and all of that is moot anyway: the important bit is that he acts like a nazi and inspires others to do the same.