On Sunday, MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan spoke with Jason Stanley, a professor at Yale University and the author of “How Fascism Works,” and discussed Trump’s frightening Veterans Day rally speech, where he called his detractors “vermin” within our country that…

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    1 year ago

    this kind of discourse serves to denormalize trumps fascism. it scandalizes it which i think is a good thing since fascism not only needs supporters but also a shoulder shrugging majority of people who look away and dont fight it, similar to capitalism

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      also, the fascists have gaslit many of us by saying many pf hos phrases are just figures of speech or something. calling us ‘overly sensitive’ or ‘calling everthing fascist’. so this kind of gotcha can be really reassuring for that.