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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Mar 2017

      1. Trump illustrates the paradox that the emergence of the new leads to a renewal of interest in the old. He's made history relevant again.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Mar 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      2. Lionel Trilling, writing in the 1940s, said in the age of Stalin & Hitler, Tacitus' account of Roman tyranny took on a new life.

      2 replies 10 retweets 55 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Mar 2017
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      3. Just so: to grapple with novel features of Trumpism, many have turned to history for patterns & clues.

      2 replies 7 retweets 32 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Mar 2017
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      4. Historical analogies are a good place to start a conversation but they shouldn't be seen as fixed or definitive.

      2 replies 9 retweets 47 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Mar 2017
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      5. The best way to use historical analogies is to be mindful of differences as well as similarities.

      2 replies 14 retweets 51 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Mar 2017
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      6. In the case of Trumpism, there are definitely proto-fascist features, but its post-modern protofascism in dispersed settled society

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Mar 2017
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      7. What we can now call classical fascism involved mobilization of young bodies in the street. In post-modern fascism is more....sedentary.

      5 replies 22 retweets 63 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Mar 2017
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      8. Also, important distinction between synchronic analogies (comparing different societies) & diachronic analogies (search for ancestors)

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Mar 2017

      9. With Trump, we've had a rich array of synchronic analogies (Caligula to Hitler) but few diachronic ones (Coughlin, Wallace, Nixon)

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Mar 2017
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          10. Reviewing @TimothyDSnyder's latest book, I look at the uses and abuses of historical analogies:https://newrepublic.com/article/140952/horrible-histories-perils-comparing-trump-stalin-hitler-dictators …

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Mar 2017
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          11. Most thoughtful use of the fascism analogy I've seen has been by @Dr_Geoff_Read & colleagues: http://activehistory.ca/2017/01/trumpism-fascism-and-the-lessons-of-history/ …

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        1. John Francis  🌻 🇨🇦 🧡‏ @johnefrancis 13 Mar 2017
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          how about Bush Jr, via Putin.

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        1. Dr Altha Cravey‏ @LocoCravey 13 Mar 2017
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          isn't it important to think beyond synchronic and diachronic to global social relations & interconnectedness?

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        2. A K M Adam‏ @AKMA 13 Mar 2017
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          Might you have your syn- and dia- corsssed up? I would ordinarily think the parade of historical horribles was *diachronic*…

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        3. A K M Adam‏ @AKMA 13 Mar 2017
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          … and the survey of [more or less] contemporary tinpots was *synchronic*. (Also, s/corssed/crossed)

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        1. Geoff Read‏ @Dr_Geoff_Read 13 Mar 2017
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          With Bannon in the inner circle, I think we could argue that Hitler or at least Nazi propaganda etc. is a diachronic analogy.

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