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 ...
self-appointed leftist totalitarian ‘Expert.”
Interesting. A “professor of history” who fails to learn from it.
SEE also:
DeSantis is a ‘very dangerous individual’ because he has ‘already absorbed all the lessons of Trump’ but doesn’t have any of the baggage, an expert on fascism argues
Business Insider ^ | June 15 2022 | Azmi Haroun,Charles R. Davis
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4071429/posts
Trump was ‘extremely disciplined in grifting’ and trying to use the presidency to make money, expert on fascism says
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-used-presidency-to-try-and-make-money-fascism-expert-2022-6
A Leftist academic ‘expert’ in Fascism that can’t identify or won’t acknowledge the fascism and authoritarianism with their own political party. Ironic. Deflect/Project much? /s
Who’s up for making some bingo cards to see if we can get a game going with the charges they might come up with?
“there would be no room to bury them.”
Oceans are really, really big.
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