On Fascism

Here are some quotes from the excellent book by Dr. Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works.

--"When the Israeli right uses the unquestioned history of Jewish oppression to assert Jewish dominance over Palestinian lands and lives, they are relying on the ease of victimization to obscure the contradiction between a struggle for equal respect and a struggle for dominance" (p. 115). 

--"The Confederacy, like Hitler's Reich, was built to defend, 'the aristocratic principle in nature,' the principle of racial hierarchy" (p. 91).

--Quoting Hitler from Mein Kampf : "...all effective propaganda must be confined to very few points which must be brought out in the form of slogans" (p. 64) 

The last quote brings to mind some words of a certain man named Trump: 

     --"Drain the Swamp"

     --"Lock Her Up"

     --"Drill, Baby, Drill"

     --"Make America Great Again" (thank you former Pres. Reagan)

     --"Too Big to Rig"

     --"Make America Healthy Again"

     --"Never Surrender" (thank you Corey Hart)

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