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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5390348" data-attributes="member: 54375">donald&#039;s &quot;cult includes many other components common to <a href="https://bigthink.com/thinking/fascism-definition-stanley/" target="_blank">previous fascist movements</a>—paranoia, fantastic lies, anti-intellectualism, a mythologized national past, selective appeals to law and order, and propaganda about enemies of the state. When Sen. Lindsey Graham went on TV Sunday to warn that “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/29/lindsey-graham-riots/" target="_blank">there literally will be riots in the street</a>” if Trump is prosecuted for breaking national security laws by hiding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago—Graham repeated the line <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6311520723112" target="_blank">twice</a>, to make it clear that he was serious—that’s another page from the fascist playbook: invocation of mob violence to protect the movement’s leader.&quot;William Saletan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 5390348, member: 54375"] donald's "cult includes many other components common to [URL='https://bigthink.com/thinking/fascism-definition-stanley/']previous fascist movements[/URL]—paranoia, fantastic lies, anti-intellectualism, a mythologized national past, selective appeals to law and order, and propaganda about enemies of the state. When Sen. Lindsey Graham went on TV Sunday to warn that “[URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/29/lindsey-graham-riots/']there literally will be riots in the street[/URL]” if Trump is prosecuted for breaking national security laws by hiding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago—Graham repeated the line [URL='https://video.foxnews.com/v/6311520723112']twice[/URL], to make it clear that he was serious—that’s another page from the fascist playbook: invocation of mob violence to protect the movement’s leader." William Saletan [/QUOTE]

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