In an interview with NBC News, Tom Homan described how protests in Los Angeles have affected Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in recent days.
What I took from it is they’re LARPing as fascists doing fashy things, but they’re not operating under the same level of competence that more successful fascist regimes do. It’s about a bunch of overweight pigs that can’t even pass a physical, putting on a German helmet and bossing people around, while being too fucking stupid to be capable of believing in anything let alone even know what they’re doing.
I think that idea that Nazis were evil geniuses is part of the problem. Perhaps a handful of the top party leaders could be reasonably described that way but by and large your average Nazi was as exactly as dumb as your modern Republican. Although you probably have a point about the fat content of the two groups.
they’re LARPing as fascists doing fashy things, but they’re not operating under the same level of competence that more successful fascist regimes do
Actually, “successful” fascist regimes don’t tend to be anywhere near as efficient as history teaches us.
A combination of their own propaganda persisting in spite of being debunked (for example the trains in Mussolini’s Italy did NOT in fact tend to run on time) and a natural tendency in humans to conflate monstrous ruthlessness with efficiency means that historical fascists get a lot of unearned credit.
Being stupid and incompetent ISN’T inherently incongruous with being fascist.
In spite of the dominant narratives of both themselves and their opponents, fascism often if not always contain kakistocratic elements as “true believer” isn’t synonymous with “truly cunning and effective”
Conclusion: the Trump regime IS a fascist regime by any objective criteria, none of which is “everyone is competent”
With all the amazing 5D chess moves being made like artificially inducing a recession if not a full depression, forcefully deporting the back bone of your labor force, extremely anemic manufacturing, massive brain drain, jailing everyone, and pretending that somehow the US is going to dominate the world with absolutely 0 diplomacy skills while burning all bridges to every alliance, I agree with that statement. It will all collapse into a civil war before they hit the end game of some dictator regime. The economy will be dead, and it will be a dark age in the western hemisphere. Not dark as is in depressing, but as in nothing happens because it will take probably a century to pass before anything starts to recover. These morons are going to be in the streets with the rest of us, picking at what’s left of the country by forming tribes of raiders. Basically the plot every of every book that warned us about this future since the late '40’s.
I’m not sure what you mean by this. If it walks like a duck then it’s a duck
Steps like a goose might be more apt in this case.
I’m going to borrow this going forward. Thanks!
What I took from it is they’re LARPing as fascists doing fashy things, but they’re not operating under the same level of competence that more successful fascist regimes do. It’s about a bunch of overweight pigs that can’t even pass a physical, putting on a German helmet and bossing people around, while being too fucking stupid to be capable of believing in anything let alone even know what they’re doing.
I think that idea that Nazis were evil geniuses is part of the problem. Perhaps a handful of the top party leaders could be reasonably described that way but by and large your average Nazi was as exactly as dumb as your modern Republican. Although you probably have a point about the fat content of the two groups.
Actually, “successful” fascist regimes don’t tend to be anywhere near as efficient as history teaches us.
A combination of their own propaganda persisting in spite of being debunked (for example the trains in Mussolini’s Italy did NOT in fact tend to run on time) and a natural tendency in humans to conflate monstrous ruthlessness with efficiency means that historical fascists get a lot of unearned credit.
Being stupid and incompetent ISN’T inherently incongruous with being fascist.
In spite of the dominant narratives of both themselves and their opponents, fascism often if not always contain kakistocratic elements as “true believer” isn’t synonymous with “truly cunning and effective”
Conclusion: the Trump regime IS a fascist regime by any objective criteria, none of which is “everyone is competent”
With all the amazing 5D chess moves being made like artificially inducing a recession if not a full depression, forcefully deporting the back bone of your labor force, extremely anemic manufacturing, massive brain drain, jailing everyone, and pretending that somehow the US is going to dominate the world with absolutely 0 diplomacy skills while burning all bridges to every alliance, I agree with that statement. It will all collapse into a civil war before they hit the end game of some dictator regime. The economy will be dead, and it will be a dark age in the western hemisphere. Not dark as is in depressing, but as in nothing happens because it will take probably a century to pass before anything starts to recover. These morons are going to be in the streets with the rest of us, picking at what’s left of the country by forming tribes of raiders. Basically the plot every of every book that warned us about this future since the late '40’s.
The revolution will not be televised.