"The primary function of eliminationist rhetoric throughout its long and sordid history has been simple and direct: It creates permission.

It’s a green light for violence and the annihilation of common human decency. ...

The whole point of eliminationism is to create permission for violence and exclusion, and it’s difficult to do that when the memories of the misery and pain caused by previous atrocities remains fresh."

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"This is why it’s so essential, in the view of Trump and his MAGA movement, to whitewash our history this way: It creates the possibility that the atrocities—which they perversely like to portray as good things—can be recreated again and again.

This is in fact what all authoritarian regimes do:"

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"In order to gain control of a nation accustomed to democratic rule and the gradual progress of its culture and human institutions, you have to destroy any sense of their shared interests and common ground across all demographic and cultural groups—the meat of our real history, with its warts and missteps and atrocities in open view."

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Authoritarianism, fascism, and all forms of right wing politics, “moderate” or not, are defined by the never-ending desire for power. And for someone in power with this mindset, there is no amount of power that is enough. ...

America has been authoritarian from the moment it was founded:"

~ Elad Nehorai

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https://eladnehorai.substack.com/p/none-of-this-is-new-why-americas