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🧵 Reactionaries evaluate moral choices through identities rather than principles.
What others may see as hypocrisy is actually consistent commitment to the power dynamic they obsessively follow.
The rightfulness of an act is not determined by moral principles but by identity of the person or group committing it. #philosophy
It misses the details and subtleties you include, but I call this "obedience/submission to hierarchy", and, as a little Jewish kid, it's what screamed out at me in the story of Abraham and Isaac, and made me a hard "no thank you" for the whole thing.
@lucybeahere It means to focus on the edges rather than attack Trump directly. The belief in Trump is a defense mechanism and its own epistemology. This means that most Trumpers lack the intellectual fortitude to brook any challenge to their worldview.
Focus on individual MAGA grifters, ridicule the rally attenders, and poke fun at Trump's cognitive decline.
They can't even begin to understand Trump's criminality. But they can understand smaller ideas.
The best way to oppose authoritarian thinking is to understand that it cannot be compromised with.
Authoritarians are incapable of compromise with toleration because to do so is to invite spiritual and psychic death.
This is ultimately what attracted Trump, a completely unthinking person, to authoritarians. He does not care or understand their pseudo-intellectualism, but he understands their death drive.
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