1. "Excuse me ma'am, I speak wingnut." Ben Carson's comments linking the Kavanaugh accusations to the Fabian Society might sound like gibberish. But if you are fluent in right-wing mythohistory, it's perfectly logical.https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1043272137677721600 …
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11. The weird thing is that the Fabians were, in context of socialism, the most moderate form of social democracy: advocates of slow, gradual change over many decades or centuries: the herbivorous left.
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12. Tangentially, the high-brow version of this is conservative intellectuals blaming large historical change on some philosophical heresy: gnosticism, nominalism, Machiavellianism, etc. As if ideas caused reality rather than reflected it.
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13. So: in 1940s and 1950s, lots of right-wing Americans were grousing about Fabians. Ben Carson is echoing this distant conspiracy theory in his remarks.
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The one I heard again and again talking to people at Trump rallies in 2016 was Soros.
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More specifically, the current GOP relies on three pillars to thrive politically: racism to attract just enough voters in the right places, billionaires to provide the money, and lying to cover it all up. That last pillar includes mythohistory.
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and so to combat these perceived conspiracies they ironically form right-wing conspiratorial cabals like the Powell Memorandum, Federalist Society, etc.
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Eh, only quibble with this is the use of "ironic" and not just as an adverb.
Any mass movement worth its salt addresses its own paranoiac hubris (to coin a phrase) by imitating that part of their opponents which it's most paranoid about... - Show replies
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Some Small Group of Eggheads is the name of my new band.
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All along it's been Fabians vs. Fascists? Who will control the Space Force?
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