When Trump openly and repeatedly exclaims that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” or shares a video calling for a “unified Reich,” he is literally echoing the language of Hitler.
Trump is not a “populist.” He’s not a “strongman.” He is a fascist.
The mainstream needs to start publicly refuting any idea that race exists. It's the only way.
I used to think racists were people who practised racial discrimination, but now I realise racists are actually people who believe in race.
The argument has been clearly made since the 1920s by Franz Boas, and it's only a small group of well funded racists who have perpetuated and promulgated the myth.
It needs dealing with head on, but seems a conversation US culture is unable to sustain.
He's also too dim to have a vision of his own, just recycling the past. Authoritarians seem to do that a lot. It's century + 25 = must have some kind of world war.
Most of our UK politicians studied history, probably all of them in the same places, and that seems to have informed their entire and very limited view of what's "supposed" to happen and when.
@rbreich And why not? The treasonous fuckgibbon isn't even trying to hide it anymore.
Journos should always[1] be like:
"Say what you see"
"Looks like, walks like, talks like - yup, it a fucken duck"
"If reporting it gets 'important' people angry, it's news"
I am not a journo, so it's not jeopardising my livelihood, I know. Yes, they get unethical pressures from editors and bosses. If it were me I'd like to think I'd rather walk than cave.
@rbreich #StraightFact
Trump is not claiming he is Innocent.
He is claiming he has the Right to be a Misogynistic Criminal Narcissist.
He is not even Religious.
@rbreich@BenjaminHCCarr I‘ve used it in a 2015 talk after Trump had stepped out of that golden elevator. At the time it felt provocative, now it‘s a diagnosis.
@rbreich FWIW, the “unified Reich” snippet was leftover from the WWI template he used for the ad. Other sections in the video say “1871” and “11 November 1918”.
@rbreich sadly this is par for the course for him. He does this garbage on the daily and his followers love it. It’s a cult on a massive scale and unfortunately there’s no stopping it.
@rbreich Thomas Frank's definition of #populism: "multiracial coalition of working class people coming together for economic democracy". Book recommendation: "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism" #populist
Obstruct, resist the MAGAfascists! ✊
@rbreich The greed king.When you have totally rigged the system and no intention to ever change it, extremism seems to be their answer to the inequality they created.