I find Trump as repulsive as most people here, but as a German, one thing I want to push back on is focusing on one man. Hitler's rise was possible because he was able to exploit the racial hatred and conspiratorial thinking that already existed. It's MAGA acolytes that see Trump as an […] - ThreadSky

eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy • 1 day ago

I find Trump as repulsive as most people here, but as a German, one thing I want to push back on is focusing on one man.

Hitler's rise was possible because he was able to exploit the racial hatred and conspiratorial thinking that already existed.

It's MAGA acolytes that see Trump as an […]

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kamellatate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•1 day ago

@eloquence All of this with one caveat: it's all of the Republicans, not just MAGA sub-group.

eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy•1 day ago

@kamellatate

To be clear, I don't really see a distinction between GOP and MAGA, any more than I would look for the "moderate Mussolini supporter". They made their bed and want us to die in it.

kamellatate.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•1 day ago

@eloquence Neither do I! However, I've observed increasing efforts to separate the two -- e.g., you can be a virtuous "old style" Republican and get away with MAGA not being your responsibility.

gfidk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•1 day ago

@eloquence

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EverydayMoggie.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy•15 hours ago

None of this would be possible without the cooperation of thousands of people. It's not like they do their own dirty work.

@eloquence

paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy•1 day ago

@eloquence

At this point, it’s the entire Republican Party, “conservative” media echo chamber, right-wing activist groups, and neoreactionaries funding it all.

space-wrangler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•1 day ago

@eloquence

Its a Qanon world now

Beggarmidas.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•1 day ago

@eloquence That's the part I still see people largely fucking up on, too. They want to believe their opponents have been deceived. Mislead. While yes, some are along for the ride...many aren't. They knew exactly what he was and adored him for it. He may have been a minor monster. But he was […]

ximarie.win•6 hours ago

There’s definitely the uber-wealthy who want to be in control, the white Christian nationalists who want a theocracy, the financially comfortable who only care their wallets, the white suprematists who crawled out from under the rocks during his first term, and a whole bunch of undereducated 1/2

ximarie.win•6 hours ago

people who are easily manipulated. I’m sure I’m missing some folks. This has kinda been in the works for decades now.
Not quite sure what to do about all that.

Badger-AF.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy•1 day ago

@eloquence 100% accurate. We have fertile soil for fascism. Too many of us Americans are blind due to American exceptionalism, thinking that we're special.

TLDR: We're not. We've been indoctrinated by our school system into only seeing positive things we've done and have treated all the bad […]

PTR-K.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy•1 day ago

[USPol Trump, etc.]

@eloquence
As I see it, there's layers of motives to this shit-cake:

* Trump: self-dealing, spite, freedom from consequence, being feared/admired

* Dark Enlightenment admins: disassemble U.S. federal institutions, replace them with personal philosopher-tyrant fiefdoms

* […]

lednaBM.stranger.social.ap.brid.gy•1 day ago

@eloquence Well said...

Paxil.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•1 day ago

@eloquence The poison soil in the #US is fertilized by white #protestant and #evangelical #catholic #christofascists.

GhostOnTheHalfShell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy•1 day ago

@eloquence

Donald Trump was made possible by years decades of billionaire bank rolling for the far right in the United States. They are libertarian billionaires who have collaborated for half-century to make this possible.

Billionaires are a cancer on society.

Project 2025 was Written by the […]

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