Reading @mashagessen's book, Surviving Autocracy, which helps us understand Trumpism historically and theoretically.
Want to note this passage: Hilter began to consolidate power by restricting the press and "expanding the powers of the police" to "detain people w/out charges."
Want to note this passage: Hilter began to consolidate power by restricting the press and "expanding the powers of the police" to "detain people w/out charges."
Gessen makes the point that like "no president before him" Trump views "government with contempt" (30). But it strikes me that contempt for govt has been right-wing ideology since the 80's!
Yet as an ideology that hid the real ways right-wingers just used the govt to transfer wealth upward, contempt for govt was less an expression of intellectual principles and more a justiciation for dismantling the welfare state.
But Trump really *does* have contempt for governance. He exposes how right-wing ideology really does destroy democratic institutions and norms—and how we need those things simply to preserve our economy and citizens' very lives.
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