The Paranoid Style in American Politics
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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The Reagan/Buckley style of conservatism won elections and dominated the Republican Party for many years. Trumpism demonstrates the extent to which Reagan/Buckley fusionist conservatism was a temporary and fragile settlement that masked the enduring id of old-fashioned American conservatism, including the Hard Right fringe, and today’s New Right
... See moreLaura K. Field • Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
In a review of Rufo’s book, Zack Beauchamp concluded that “Rufo has serially exaggerated the phantom menace of a leftist cultural revolution because he seeks to justify its right-wing mirror: a wholesale assault on mainstream liberal institutions designed to indoctrinate the public into its preferred social vision.”11 That’s right.