people become fascists in part because they don’t trust common people holding power. they’ve lost trust in the overall community.
they trust the institution that they feels most looks like them and acts like them. in this case, even though the military is super diverse" - they’ve all been properly vetted, it only accepts the “good ones” ( also probably part of why people are so insistent at running people who are trans out of the military )
they trust the institution, they don’t trust “government” which has east coast liberals, politically correct speech, environmentalists, and other deep state people.
whatever trump meant by swamp - most of his supporters heard it as “deep state”, “liberals”, non-white people, etc.
a lot of news organizations base pieces on governmental, corporate, or police press releases. it’s news basically because someone with prestige said it’s news.
that colors the whole framing and narrative of the news cycle. it’s supposed to be “okay” because the institutions who’s releases they’re relaying are trustworthy. even when they’ve really not.
Pennsylvania Democrats wrote to the court Wednesday. The Democrats have called the Trump lawsuit an attempt to stoke fears about unproven fraud related to mail-in voting in the battleground state.
The Trump campaign “should not be permitted to raise such spectacular fraud related claims, particular in this national climate,” lawyers representing the Democrats wrote.
For right-wingers it’s a kind of Stockholm Syndrome situation.
According to their might-makes-right ideologies, they have no choice but to accept the legitimacy and authority of the U.S. military, simply because it is the most powerful and violent institution, acting with impunity across the globe, the ultimate alpha of the physical world.
For an authoritarian, to oppose such a force is to accept one’s own irrelevance and a future full of nothing but humiliation and defeat. Leftists can live like that, but for weekend Walter Mittys with AR-15s, it’s just too much. It would be like denouncing God.
“Remember, everyone used to love Donald Trump,” Lara Trump reminded the audience. “The star of The Apprentice, he was a businessman, truly an entrepreneur — truly, really the embodiment of the American dream.”
My god, we live in such different worlds.
There was never a time where I didn’t think of Trump as a faintly ridiculous bloviating joke of a man with a pronounced cruel streak.
