Fear and hate are the handmaidens of fascism. Trump's supporters are afraid of everything their silos of mis/disinformation tells them to fear. I know grown men and women whose raison de etre is to hate. How they got this way is easy to trace over the 40 yr. arc from Reagan to Trump.
Fear and hate are the handmaidens of fascism. Trump's supporters are afraid of everything their silos of mis/disinformation tells them to fear. I know grown men and women whose raison de etre is to hate. How they got this way is easy to trace over the 40 yr. arc from Reagan to Trump.
McCarthy and the Red Scare comes to mind on the political end. But you can't get past Religion's hellfire and damnation threats to scare people into a fearful mob mentality.
Fear and hate are the handmaidens of fascism. Trump's supporters are afraid of everything their silos of mis/disinformation tells them to fear. I know grown men and women whose raison de etre is to hate. How they got this way is easy to trace over the 40 yr. arc from Reagan to Trump.
Tis older than that, Reagan was the door opener though.
McCarthy and the Red Scare comes to mind on the political end. But you can't get past Religion's hellfire and damnation threats to scare people into a fearful mob mentality.