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The more they are driven into the minority, the more they caterwaul about how they represent “normal Americans”, and the more they characterize everyone else as unhinged and disloyal to the criminal regime they continue to defend.
Keep these 'mobilizing passions' of fascism in mind. Dope seems to want to check all the boxes.
Paxton has a series of bullet points outlining what he calls fascism’s “mobilizing passions.”
A sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any traditional solutions;
The primacy of the group, toward which one has duties superior to every right, whether individual or universal, and the subordination of the individual to it;
The belief that one’s group is a victim, a sentiment that justifies any action, without legal or moral limits, against its enemies, both internal and external;
Dread of the group’s decline under the corrosive effective of individualistic liberalism, class conflict, and alien influences;
The need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possible, or by exclusionary violence if necessary;
The need for authority by natural chiefs (always male), culminating in a national chieftain who alone is capable incarnating the group’s historical destiny;
The superiority of the leader’s instincts over abstract and universal reason;
The beauty of violence and the efficacy of will, when they are devoted to a group’s success.
