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How Fascism Typically Takes Over a Nation by Rhetoric\u2026 <\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Words. Speeches. News conferences. Rallies. Media. Money. And they all point in one direction: violence in service of the fascist leader.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
THOM HARTMANN<\/a> MAR 29<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Analysts of fascism from Umberto Eco to Hannah Arendt to Timothy Snyder<\/a> and Ruth Ben-Ghiat<\/a> generally agree on a core set of characteristics of a fascist movement. It includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2014 A romantic idealization of a fictional past (\u201cMake America Great Again<\/em>\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2014 Clear definition of an <\/strong>enemy within<\/strong><\/em> that is not quite human but an \u201cother\u201d (\u201cvermin,\u201d \u201crats,\u201d \u201canimals,\u201d all phrases Trump has used just in past weeks to describe immigrants and employees of our criminal justice system)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2014 Vilification of the media (\u201cfake news\u201d or lugenpresse<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2014 Repeated attacks on minorities and immigrants as a rallying point for followers (shared hatred often binds people together)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2014 Disparagement of elections and the rule of law (because neither favors the fascist movement)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2014 Glorification of political violence and martyrdom (the January 6th \u201cpatriots\u201d and Ashley Babbitt)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2014 Hostility to academia and science leading to the elevation of Joe Sixpack\u2019s ability to \u201cdo his own research\u201d (simple answers to complex questions or issues)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2014 Embrace of fundamentalist religion and the moral codes associated with it<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2014 Rejection of the rights of women and members of the queer community as part of the celebration of toxic masculinity<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2014 Constant lies, even about seemingly inconsequential matters (Hannah Arendt noted<\/a> in 1978: \u201cIf everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2014 Performative patriotism that replaces the true obligations of citizenship (like voting and staying informed) with jingoistic slogans, logos, and mass events: faux populism<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u2014 Collaboration with oligarchs while claiming to celebrate the average person<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Donald Trump and his MAGA movement check every single box.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Remember Trump received about 74 million votes in the 2020 presidential election<\/a>, according to the Federal Election Commission. That’s almost 47% of the popular vote<\/a>. He won 232 electoral votes \u2013 270 are needed to win.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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How Fascism Typically Takes Over a Nation by Rhetoric\u2026  Words. Speeches. News conferences. Rallies. Media. Money. And they all point in one direction: violence in service of the fascist leader. THOM HARTMANN MAR 29 Analysts of fascism from Umberto Eco to Hannah Arendt to Timothy Snyder and Ruth Ben-Ghiat generally agree on a core set of characteristics of a … Continue reading “characteristics…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25955"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25989,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25955\/revisions\/25989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}