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Only months away from 1933 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by trek32 to c/politicalmemes

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[–] trek32 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Insightful interview https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-trumps-rhetoric-compares-to-historic-fascist-language

"I think Trump has been conditioning Americans since 2015 to see violence as something justified in certain cases and even patriotic.

He's been conditioning them to see other Americans as enemies, as diseased, as dirty. And what we have to remember is that authoritarians might initially target one group, and he's been talking mostly about immigrants. But he's also calling the enemy within the political opposition.

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And this is part of an authoritarian projection mechanism. I call it the upside-down world of authoritarianism, where, ever since Mussolini, he was the first to call democrats the real tyrants and fascism was going to be freedom. Fascism was going to make Italy great again. That was a slogan, as was drain the swamp. Trump took that from Mussolini as well."

[–] cybervseas 19 points 1 month ago

You're right. He came to speak to the police in my county, which has a bad reputation already, and

Trump said the administration is removing these gang members from the United States "but we'd like to get them out a lot faster and when you see ... these thugs being thrown into the back of the paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in rough, I said, 'Please don't be too nice.'"

To which the police and cadets all started to laugh. Of course later the department said of course they wouldn't be rough 🤔: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/suffolk-county-police-speak-up-after-trump-dont-be-too-nice-quip/227929/

Here's another story from my county 🙁 the "embarrassing items" in the SUV were sex toys btw:

https://abc7ny.com/james-burke-suffolk-county-police-chief-long-island/1585285/

No surprise that our county's PBA has enthusiastically endorsed Trump. As a brown family here it has us concerned.