Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) calls it sadopopulism and explains the formula:
🔹Identify an "enemy" (homeless migrants, Democrats, etc.)
🔹Enact policies that create pain
🔹Blame the pain on the "enemies"
🔹Present yourself as the strongmen who can fight the "enemies."
🔹Identify an "enemy" (homeless migrants, Democrats, etc.)
🔹Enact policies that create pain
🔹Blame the pain on the "enemies"
🔹Present yourself as the strongmen who can fight the "enemies."
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1367477693529395203
You can't be a white grievance party if your constituents are not grieving.
Make them suffer, then blame people who are not white.
Make them suffer, then blame people who are not white.
People misunderstood this comment, so I'll add that this comes from Timothy Snyder, who explained one difference between 20th-century fascists and 21st-century fascists.
20th-century fascists did not deliberately hurt their own constituents. They did not enact laws. . .
20th-century fascists did not deliberately hurt their own constituents. They did not enact laws. . .
. . . and policies that hurt loyal members of their own party.
21st-century fascists deliberately enact policies that hurt their own constituents.
"But Germans lost the war and Germans suffered," is not the same 🤦♀️
Snyder explains it this way: Fascists like Hitler . . .
21st-century fascists deliberately enact policies that hurt their own constituents.
"But Germans lost the war and Germans suffered," is not the same 🤦♀️
Snyder explains it this way: Fascists like Hitler . . .
. . . and Mussolini were interested in power. Modern fascists want power and wealth. They want power and they want to be billionaires.
The only way to do that is to enact policies that hurt their own constituents.
"The Germans lost the war and Germans suffered" isn't the same.
The only way to do that is to enact policies that hurt their own constituents.
"The Germans lost the war and Germans suffered" isn't the same.
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