The Jock/Creep Theory of Fascism
Inside the Trump machine: the bizarre psychology of America’s newest political movement Gwynn Guilford 4.1.2016
1. Hitler’s melancholia-paranoia-megolamania rhetorical style, and Trump’s class kinship (he says what they believe & gives them permission to be themselves.)
2. Roger Money-Kyrle: The people seemed gradually to lose their individuality... See more
1. Hitler’s melancholia-paranoia-megolamania rhetorical style, and Trump’s class kinship (he says what they believe & gives them permission to be themselves.)
2. Roger Money-Kyrle: The people seemed gradually to lose their individuality... See more
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archetypal features of fascist movements—things like “nostalgia for a purer, mythic, often rural past; cults of tradition and cultural regeneration … the universalizing of some groups as authentically national, while dehumanizing all other groups … anti-modernism; fetishized patriarchal masculinity.”
Laura K. Field • Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
“All sort of buffoonish men, genuinely disturbed and disturbing men whose own lack of human empathy was capitalized upon by surrounding hordes of enablers, grifters, and sociopaths. The authoritarian strongman figure at the heart of awful regimes may possess some unique and interesting, if horrifying, characteristics, but the regimes themselves are... See more