Highlights: One of the defining features of the rise of American neofascism is violence. This is in no way surprising: violence is one of the primary tools that enemies of democracy use to impose their will, undermine institutions, and prevent the types of consensus-seeking that’s foundational to a healthy democracy and society. Contrary to what right-wing leaders and their disinformation media would like to suggest, this violence is not on “both sides.” The data and other evidence show that political violence and extremism in the Age of Trump (and from the late 1980s to the present more generally) is a phenomenon almost exclusive to the right-wing and “conservative” movement.
National security experts and law enforcement are continuing to warn that right-wing political violence as seen on Jan. 6, in mass shootings and other acts of terrorism, hate crimes, and other such actions – up to an including the possibility of a sustained insurgency to remove President Biden and the Democrats from power – is the greatest threat to the country’s domestic safety and security.
They took the tactic from modern day Christian televangelism.
They use Trump as the focus of a belief system
They twist the old and outdated morality of hyper patriotism and conservative values. They do this in order to cherry-pick rules and laws to form a grotesque dogma that bares little resemblance to the original intention of said laws and morality.
They then use the twisted dogma to manipulate the population. They do this by feeding into the fears of poverty, ‘evil’, xenophobia, and racism. Then they offer solutions to those issues so long as they tithe (donate money), worship, and “spread the good news.”
The solutions offered are wildly unrealistic… Free money for loyalty? Killing a whole group of people?
Unless your name is Israel, those solutions are obviously a farce to anyone with even the smallest amount of situational awareness and common sense.
That’s why a lot of the Trump propaganda dulls the common sense and attempts to rewrite the memory of others using memes and obvious lies.
You have to essentially hypnotize people into believing that they are being oppressed, attacked, and that everyone but those a part of the belief system are evil baby-eaters.
One of the major reasons that fundamental Christians and the tea party generation are such numerous Trumpism supporters…
The hard work of brainwashing them was already done by another religion. All the MAGA leaders had to do was swap out one god for another.
It worked for ancient Rome, and it’s working here.
I agree.
But just to be clear, they are not hyper patriots, they are hyper nationalists.