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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2111421" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>my favorite quotes from the second part of democracy nows interview with robert paxton who teaches at columbia and is one of americas top experts on facism:</p><p></p><p><strong>ROBERT PAXTON:...</strong>He’s touched the nerve with his style, which has fascist overtones, encouraging violence, attacking the internal enemy and so forth, saying that the system is rotten and it needs an outsider to fix it, which is a fascist kind of appeal—make Germany great, make America great...</p><p>--------------</p><p></p><p><strong>AMY GOODMAN:</strong> I mean, talking about disparity, you have—what did the study show? Something like 63 of the world’s richest people have more wealth than three-and-a-half billion people. And 42 of them are right here in the United States.</p><p></p><p><strong>ROBERT PAXTON:</strong> Yes, and it’s ironic that Trump is one of them, and somehow he’s seen as the outsider who will fix it....his aggressive style, which recalls Mussolini...</p><p></p><p>-----------</p><p></p><p>ROBERT PAXTON:</p><p>He’s very good at sensing the deep feelings of a crowd and playing them. This is another thing that sounds like Mussolini. Mussolini used to stand on the balcony and have exchanges with the thousands of people assembled in the streets below, and they would chant back and forth. He has brought those people into political activity. He’s given them a focus. And he’s installed himself as their spokesperson. And that’s an astonishing achievement.</p><p></p><p>----------------</p><p></p><p><strong>ROBERT PAXTON:</strong> Yes, but one of the qualities of fascism was that they admired violence. They thought that violence had an esthetic quality, provided it was violence directed toward the revival of a damaged country or damaged state. And a little of that redemptive violence is showing up in Trump’s rhetoric, because he’s suggesting to the crowd and encouraging them to think that it’s good to rough up people they disagree with. And this is an ominous development.</p><p></p><p>-----------------</p><p></p><p></p><p>ROBERT PAXTON: ... I think Trump adopts fascist themes. He revels in fascist techniques. He’s good at manipulating a crowd. There are, at the same time, profound differences...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2111421, member: 56035"] my favorite quotes from the second part of democracy nows interview with robert paxton who teaches at columbia and is one of americas top experts on facism: [B]ROBERT PAXTON:...[/B]He’s touched the nerve with his style, which has fascist overtones, encouraging violence, attacking the internal enemy and so forth, saying that the system is rotten and it needs an outsider to fix it, which is a fascist kind of appeal—make Germany great, make America great... -------------- [B]AMY GOODMAN:[/B] I mean, talking about disparity, you have—what did the study show? Something like 63 of the world’s richest people have more wealth than three-and-a-half billion people. And 42 of them are right here in the United States. [B]ROBERT PAXTON:[/B] Yes, and it’s ironic that Trump is one of them, and somehow he’s seen as the outsider who will fix it....his aggressive style, which recalls Mussolini... ----------- ROBERT PAXTON: He’s very good at sensing the deep feelings of a crowd and playing them. This is another thing that sounds like Mussolini. Mussolini used to stand on the balcony and have exchanges with the thousands of people assembled in the streets below, and they would chant back and forth. He has brought those people into political activity. He’s given them a focus. And he’s installed himself as their spokesperson. And that’s an astonishing achievement. ---------------- [B]ROBERT PAXTON:[/B] Yes, but one of the qualities of fascism was that they admired violence. They thought that violence had an esthetic quality, provided it was violence directed toward the revival of a damaged country or damaged state. And a little of that redemptive violence is showing up in Trump’s rhetoric, because he’s suggesting to the crowd and encouraging them to think that it’s good to rough up people they disagree with. And this is an ominous development. ----------------- ROBERT PAXTON: ... I think Trump adopts fascist themes. He revels in fascist techniques. He’s good at manipulating a crowd. There are, at the same time, profound differences... [/QUOTE]
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