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Here are a couple of links that help clarify thoughts that often are hard to tease out clearly.
Sadopopulism Is about pulling off the trick of hurting the people who follow you by "defending" them from enemies you created. The whole piece isn't very long and worth thinking about.
"Would-be oligarchs instead follow a 4-part plan:
- They identify an “enemy” (homeless migrants, minority communities, Democrats, etc.)
- They enact policies that create pain in their own supporters
- They blame the pain on the “enemies”
- They present themselves as the strongmen to fight the enemies."
And Trump is creating new enemies to fight every day.
From a 12 part Twitter thread by Jared Yates Sexton
Trumpism is the border between “respectable realists” who are in denial about their white supremacist views and people who actively embrace white supremacy.— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) June 28, 2020
The GOP has played this game for decades. It was always going to get here and lead to this madness.
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The link above should take you to the whole thread, but here's another key Tweet in the thread:
Americans like Trump who believe they aren’t racists while holding explicitly white supremacist beliefs that people of color are naturally inferior to whites, don’t think they’re prejudiced.— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) June 28, 2020
They think they understand a truth others won’t admit.
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