"Fascist leaders claimed to embody the general will of the nation and its 𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘬, but insisted only unchecked power would allow them to realize the national will without nebbish barriers like individual rights and endless democratic debates getting in the way." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-origins-... - ThreadSky

liberalcurrents.com • 10 days ago

"Fascist leaders claimed to embody the general will of the nation and its 𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘬, but insisted only unchecked power would allow them to realize the national will without nebbish barriers like individual rights and endless democratic debates getting in the way." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-origins-of-right-wing-populism/

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desqatarian.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yes, but why does the article have a picture of a potato as its cover?

jefiner68.bsky.social•10 days ago

🤣 🤣 🤣

jeffdemello.bsky.social•10 days ago

🖕🏼🍊🍕💩, the GOP, Musk, DOGE, the MAGAts, and all their vile minions!

oconnellmark.bsky.social•10 days ago

yellowgreenblue.bsky.social•10 days ago

From the article: They appealed to a strange kind of ressentiment; namely those who felt they were both victimized by external and internal oppressors, and simultaneously a natural aristocracy whose pride of place in the state had been denied by progressive forces.

yellowgreenblue.bsky.social•10 days ago

1. Revenge against Lincoln & the outcome of the Civil War. 2. Revenge against FDR & the New Deal. 3. Revenge against the end of Jim Crow. 4. Revenge against women’s rights & abortion. 5. Revenge against Johnson & civil rights. 6. Revenge against the Warren Court & Brown v Board. Revenge against. .
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yellowgreenblue.bsky.social•10 days ago

. . . LGBTQI+ rights; 7. Revenge against the federal gov’t for protecting minorities against the tyranny of the majority (for once in over 200 years); 8. Reagan opening the door to religious nutters; 9. Revenge against the fed gov’t for the most minuscule regulation of oligarchs & big polluters; and

yellowgreenblue.bsky.social•10 days ago

10. Revenge & anger bcuz white men (and women) have to share America w/a rainbow of other people from different races and ethnic backgrounds & not be central, centered, or unduly given prominence. Oh, oh. 11. Capture of the fed system by Christian fascists & dark money.

yellowgreenblue.bsky.social•10 days ago

12. Revenge by an unethical, unscrupulous, narcissistic, petty, small-handed, 💩 smelling, diaper wearing, amoral Russian compromised MF, felon, wanna be dictator who wanted to avoid jail, and who was never liked or accepted by the NY elite bcuz he & his family are crass low-life money grubbers.

understandvsknow.bsky.social•10 days ago

It began with the Moral Majority nonsense.

nickjustageek.bsky.social•10 days ago

I'd say it goes farther bad

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conservative_Mind

Their principal: A belief in a transcendent order.

Means that Conservative elites have the right to define what that transcendent order is. Individuals don't have the right to question that order.

understandvsknow.bsky.social•10 days ago

Thank you for taking the time to do inform

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