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The giant Nazi rallies were meant to create a sense of myth and power, to make believers feel as if they were chosen to be part of a larger calling. They were church services worshiping the leader and the cult of fascism. It put them beyond the natural world. 14/pic.twitter.com/MmGoDxFOrZ
The problem was that in order for fascism to be a public religion, it relied on indoctrination and the conquering of reality. Through schools and propaganda, alternative thought was destroyed, punished by violence and murder. 15/pic.twitter.com/bo4hOhaGDt
We have to take a second and really sit with this. Fascism is the conquering of reality by force and violence. It's the conquering of shared society based on lies, untruths, and misleading information. It is a literal war with reality and truth. 16/
Nazism and fascism found homes in America because the US was fertile with these religious, national, racist myths. Swastikas and American flags stood alongside one another, right there with icons like George Washington. We watched fascism grow here. 17/pic.twitter.com/mNgE0mKnmf
With Charles Lindbergh, the America First Movement, a purely white supremacist, fascist party, grew into a major force. Lindbergh called for America to join with Hitler to defend white supremacy and gained unbelievable traction in the leadup to World War II. 18/pic.twitter.com/rYlfNjn5Eq
The disturbing truth is that America is predisposed to fascism because of our myth of American Exceptionalism. It is a fascistic, white supremacist lie that legitimized slavery, genocide, internment, and so much oppression. This is what MAGA and Trumpism are about. 19/pic.twitter.com/xgjyel7k98
The idea that our Founders, racist, slaveholding, wealthy white men, were chosen by God to found this country, to protect slavery, to suppress the poor and vulnerable populations, is weaponized propaganda that the Right, now a fascist movement, is trying to protect. 20/pic.twitter.com/hG2wP8Uo6f
Trumpism and "patriotic education" are fascist movements that seek to protect and continue the white supremacist lie of American Exceptionalism. This is a new iteration of fascism, but it works exactly the same. We've been in denial for way, way too long. 21/pic.twitter.com/vURD7BLn2N
Like other fascists before him, Trump has centered himself as the ultimate arbiter of truth, a prophet of white supremacist American Exceptionalism, the leader of a cult that lives and dies by his lies and propaganda. This isn't exaggeration. It's not alarmist. 22/pic.twitter.com/qv2gljp3sD
Like other fascists leaders, Trump has been lifted to the level of being chosen by God to carry out a divine plan. That means truth and reality belong to him and are subject to his whims. Anything he does is legitimized by the threat of possible, theoretical violence. 23/pic.twitter.com/kZHiFlGRxt
We've seen this from the beginning, the war on reality and the truth. Fascism says there's no such thing as empirical evidence. Reality is dependent on the cult leader to decide. We see a sad, poorly attended inauguration. He sees record crowds. The war is over reality. 24/pic.twitter.com/3Wu0zppKjb
This is why the pandemic has unfurled like it has. Trump denies it's real even as he believes it is deadly. His belief, like the visions of a prophet or cult leader, spreads through his faithful. Why? Because it's HIS TRUTH. HIS REALITY. He owns it like a revelation. 25/pic.twitter.com/HHdhBZaWMI
Experts who disagree with Trump's reality are cast as traitors, because the alternate reality of the fascist cult demonizes anyone who doesn't defer to the leader's reality. The result is intimidation, violence, even murder, for anyone who doesn't agree with the reality. 26/pic.twitter.com/l2LAQiGapP
In the fascist society, everything is a conspiracy against the chosen reality of the leader. Anyone who dissents, anyone who complains, anyone who even asks questions is doing it from a point of opposition to the religion. They're literally agents of a satanic conspiracy. 27/pic.twitter.com/aHuFwBm1qL
The Deep State and Qanon are just revamps of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Ways to explain how an exceptional, chosen country has failed. Because it has to be a conspiracy. It can't be mistakes, poor choices, and national failings. It has to be a supernatural battle 28/pic.twitter.com/hexa3yDR94
And, in this white supremacist reality, protesters or dissenting voices are cast as evil, as parts of a giant, satanic conspiracy against the godly country. This has been the case in America since it's very beginning, and we're watching it play out again. 29/pic.twitter.com/7ZkKiaMRn5
What we are seeing, with Trumpism, is an attempt to actively outlaw, vilify, and destroy any alternative worldview. This is a literal battle over reality where the fascist cult will intimidate, harm, or kill anyone who disagrees with their manufactured worldview. 30/pic.twitter.com/barMJw398I
Trumpism isn't populism. It's literally fascism. We must face this truth and call it what it is before it's too late. Because we're lost in our myths, because we think we're exceptional, it makes so much more susceptible to this poison. It aids fascism. 31/pic.twitter.com/KDXWLaeKU5
Again. This is a war over the very nature of reality. Fascism weaponizes it, vilifies opposition, rejects empirical evidence, destroys democracy, and creates an altered reality where power and profit can be run by a single cult leader or their fascist religion. 32/
The antidotes to fascism are truth, community, and love. Fascism hides behind these lies, behind its weaponized veneer. We have to name it, expose it, diagnose it, and reject it. We must repair our communal bonds before the atomization damns us to a fascist future. 33/
Trumpism is a fascist death cult. It will destroy us. We must disabuse ourselves of these myths, these lies, this poisonous division, and we must do it in a hurry. He isn't kidding. He isn't playing around. This is a full-blown crisis and we must meet it head-on. 34/34
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