- 08 Sep 2021 17:28
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"What can appear to be a contradictory outlook is actually typical of authoritarian movements. When they are out of power, they will attack the state with every weapon at their disposal. Once they take power, however, they will entrench their own authority and repress dissent. Look at the right-wing ruling parties in India, Turkey, Hungary and Poland, which the GOP increasingly resembles.
Thomas Zimmer, a historian at Georgetown University, argued that Republicans are not motivated “by nihilism, but by conviction — by the idea that America must be a white Christian nation, a place where a white Christian male elite gets to rule.”
You might say they are practicing tactical anarchism with the strategic goal of instituting right-wing authoritarianism."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/07/how-republicans-manage-be-both-anarchists-authoritarians/
Thomas Zimmer, a historian at Georgetown University, argued that Republicans are not motivated “by nihilism, but by conviction — by the idea that America must be a white Christian nation, a place where a white Christian male elite gets to rule.”
You might say they are practicing tactical anarchism with the strategic goal of instituting right-wing authoritarianism."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/07/how-republicans-manage-be-both-anarchists-authoritarians/
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