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"One thing I’ve learned these past few years…the secret ingredient in the rise of fascism is cowards. Recipe
goes, “Season with cowards liberally and often. Let simmer, applying additional cowards at regular intervals.”

Anyway."

That's a fact.

Also run with:

The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
"Oh Hannah, if you'd only lived long enough to see how well that statement has held up. The banality of social media."
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conix, Trump under Leninist influence. How many really understand that?
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From biblical times to Trump, false messiahs have doomed societies
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Trump the saviour
P - Most recently, messianic expectations have attached to the figure of Trump .. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2050303220924078 , whom a large proportion of white evangelicals herald as a political saviour .. https://religionnews.com/2018/07/02/why-white-evangelicals-voted-for-trump-fear-power-and-nostalgia/ . Many of them draw a link between Isaiah 45, which describes the Persian king Cyrus the Great .. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/opinion/trump-evangelicals-cyrus-king.html .. as God’s anointed, and the fact that Trump is the 45th president of the United States; this numerical coincidence is viewed as evidence for divine providence.
P - Even Trump’s moral failings have been assimilated to his messianic identity: Jerry Falwell Jr. compares Trump to King David .. https://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article228612744.html , who committed adultery .. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+sam+11&version=NRSV .. and repented to God following the death of his son who was conceived through this illicit sexual union.
P - If evangelicals regard Trump as their saviour and the one who will rectify the moral and political imbalance .. https://theconversation.com/trump-still-enjoys-huge-support-among-evangelical-voters-and-its-not-only-because-of-abortion-148174 .. they perceive is afflicting American society, the QAnon movement has taken this doctrine of salvation to the next level: Exploiting human emotion and concern for children, the movement posits a global child sex-trafficking ring run by high level Democrats and the Hollywood elite.
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Cancel the bastard - Briboy - Evangelicals perfected cancel culture. Now it’s coming for them.
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[fuagf]

The DeVos resignation letter .. oops, can't get image

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/betsy-devos-resignation-letter/cfd93504-2353-4ac3-8e71-155446242dda/

"Actually, I’m writing this on the 7th, the one-year anniversary of Betsy DeVos’ principled resignation from the lynch-mob-inciting Turd Reich in freefall, and goddamn if that way-too-little, years-too-late, utterly hollow gesture didn’t turn out to be the high-water mark for Republican ethics in this age of domestic political violence. "