Posted on 06/15/2022 4:49:08 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Ruth Ben-Ghiat spends a lot of time thinking about authoritarianism. An historian at New York University, she is an expert on the rise of fascism in Italy and, most recently, author of the the book, "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present," tracing the erosion of democracy from Russia to the United States of America.
She is keenly focused on what happens when those in power lose their grip on it.
"The authoritarian playbook has no chapter on failure," Ben-Ghiat wrote in a November 2020 piece for The Washington Post. "Nothing prepares the ruler to see his propaganda ignored and his charismatic hold weaken until his own people turn against him."
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Just another east coast academic who doesn’t realize what she doesn’t realize.
Today my 28 yr old grandson asked what he should do with his money in light of inflation...we told him to research his company’s 401K, ie mutual fund offerings and get back to us...but then I added you might want to stock up on your favorite canned and dried foods...I think he is slowly becoming conservative. I hate to tell him we could become Venezuela.
Trump has already been persecuted 🤪
Freedom is slavery.
We have to destroy democracy to save it.
People aren’t smart enough to know who to vote for - they need to be told.
That’s a man baby, yeah!
Business Leftovers quoting a DNC-welded unobservant Jew from a prior Washington ComPost areticle crowing about saving “American democracy” which ISN’T a thing, has NEVER existed, and NEVER was intended to exist.
And another thing: MUST we dig in the sewer for content??
“...author of the the book, “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present” “The authoritarian playbook has no chapter on failure,”
I’m surprised that the author of a book with Mussolini’s name in the title is ignorant of this fact.
She sounds like an expert on authoritarianism alright. What is her expert opinion on whether a concentration camp or a gulag is the best place to persecute political prisoners?
She’s against her own people and own religion too.
I think she meant an authoritarian expert on authoritarianism.
Talk about gaslighting. This is extreme gaslighting.
“Think ‘Think Tank Skank’.”
Instead of “Thank ‘Think Sink Skink’.”
or whatever...
Bah. Somebody said something stupid. So let’s all insult her and feel like something has been gained or won.
Is this person the big brother propagandist?
I bet she makes chip monk noises.
okay
LMAO
FOR WHAT?????
no one has told me specifically exactly what law Trump is supposed to have broken!!!!
Diversity has consequences folks. You chose to worship diversity instead of the true God. So now you get a country full of non-Christians and peoples who have no common heritage or history and could care less about antiquated matters like the “bill of rights” written by a bunch of “old dead white men.”
Enjoy your diversity.
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