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Ruth Ben-Ghiat discusses with Aaron Rupar "the general set of conditions that lead a population to embrace somebody like a Trump": she says that when men — white ones in the Euro-American context — feel their status and privilege threatened, strongmen wannabes like Trump come on the scene to exploit the anxiety rapid social change elicits.
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In America's multi-racial democracy, the election of Obama followed by a female candidate for president sparked huge backlash: people began to say that everything that was happening was a wrong direction for the nation — with white men as the drivers of the discontent and rage.
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@wdlindsy@toad.social"And that's when somebody like Trump comes on the scene and scans the political marketplace and says, 'Oh, here's a constituency, white working-class voters, malcontents,’ and so he brilliantly swooped in and said, 'You are the forgotten. I love you and I'm going to save you.'"
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They are half-right. Everything (or nearly so) is going in the wrong direction. But, in the US at least, we've been propagandized against the left so much that they cannot analyze the situation. Things are bad b/c money & power is being horded by elites who use bigotry to camouflage their rapacious greed. Capitalism's answers are pushing us into fascism.
@Jeramee Yes, and I think this is why Thomas Zimmer is using the term "weaponized nostalgia." It seems obvious to many of us that something's deeply awry, but the analysis of what that is is being distorted by a weaponized nostalgia that refuses to address the systemic causes of our current perilous situation.
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There's a ton of thought packed into that idea of weaponized nostalgia.
It also tracks with a cult of tradition and rejection of modernism being common characteristics of fascism.
@Jeramee I very much agree. That hits the mark very precisely.