The animating concept behind the Trump campaign will be chaos. This is what history shows us fascists do when given the chance to participate in democratic political campaigns: They create chaos. They do it because chaos works to their advantage. They revel in it, because they can see how profoundly chaos unnerves democratic-republicans—everyone, that is, whether liberal or conservative, who believes in the basic idea of a representative government that is built around neutral rules. Fascism exists to pulverize neutral rules.

So they campaign with explicit intention to instill a sense of chaos. And then comes the topper: They have the audacity to insist that the only solution to the chaos—that they themselves have either grossly exaggerated or in some cases created!—is to vote for them: “You see, there is nothing but chaos afoot, and only we can restore order!”

  • @mojofrododojo
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    110 months ago

    I love how it’s the dem’s responsibility to keep conservatives from destroying the country - oh wait, no, it’s been that way since bush ran the economy into the shitter, er, no, not that bush, the other bush & reagan. Somehow conservatives always present some kind of existential threat to the democracy that’s the left’s job to fix again and again.

      • @mojofrododojo
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        19 months ago

        did Clinton drive the economy into the shitter? Or Obama?

        Pray tell how the country’s been left in crisis by dems. Did Carter wreck the economy just before Reagan took office?

        explain.