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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 30 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Umberto Eco (a survivor of Mussolini’s actual regime) identified this as one of the core traits of Ur-Fascism. Specifically, #8…

The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies.… However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.

You will note that Republicans check literally every single box of Umberto Eco’s list.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

I am always glad when people share this because whenever I bring it up IRL it seems like nobody else has read it.