The fascist swindle: When ‘victims’ become tyrants

A common yarn associates the rise of the American authoritarianism with the Nazis while walking through the streets of Melbourne, Dr Alex Vickery-Howe.

I wrote an article once President Donald J. Trump is a convicted criminal. It was true when I wrote this and is still true. It will always be right.

While watching the brutal pressure on immigration in the USA, sailors now deployed In order to suppress an insurrection that does not exist, he wonders how innocent immigrants feel handcuffed, humiliated, detained and deported by a man who really violates the law. This is a disgusting irony.

One wonders how all self -defining “patriots önemli who claimed to be“ opposing the persecution ,, that the courts were ignored and that a small reserve spent on an autocrat reacts Birthday Gate Ceremony. For all my life, conservatives tell me that they “need their weapons” if the dictator threatens America ”. The dictator is now here, kids – this is your moment. It’s strange that you chee up.

In the examination Mein KampfGeorge Orwell caught How fascism has managed to repeat the victim politics and history:

A pathetic, dog -like face, the face of a man suffering under unbearable mistakes. In a very masculine way, he reproduces the expression of numerous paintings of the crucified Christ, and there is no doubt that Hitler sees himself like this. The first, personal reason for the complaint against the universe can only be predicted; But in any case, the complaint is here. Martyr, sacrifice, chained to Prometheus Rock, sacrificing himself who fought himself with one -hand against impossible possibilities. He knew what kind of a dragon would look if he was killing a mouse.

This image Adolf HitlerThe portrait opposes the American conservative image of what a tyrant looks like and how they behave. Hitler’s great trick was to play this way. He was the person who was “painful”, “wounded ,, and standing in the face of“ pressure ”and enemies for his country and his people. and in.

Similarly, Donald Trump’s image – Harried was swallowed by the wounded, appropriate agents, pumped his fist in the air, and called his followers to “fight”. – It was the point where he won the presidential campaign.

Trump was a martyr, victim and victorious. It didn’t matter if he was aggressive until many seconds. It didn’t matter if it was shot by a young man with a mind patient No consistent ideological agenda But there was an easy access thanks to years of Republican policy firearm. It doesn’t even matter if it happens Bikter or Harris He opposed Trump’s progress.

Personally, I will claim that Biden is always He was ill -treated and devalüe “Hollywood Elites” intervening by his own party and OP-ED Trump and JD Vance’s anti -elitist discourse – But history doesn’t care.

History works from big pictures. Not detail. Not nuance. Trump’s photo that grasped his bleeding ear changed everything.

It was over when this shot exploded. Violence does not destroy political enemies; Lions them.

Trump’s retention During the months of that moment was built on the “glory”. He takes a hat for him because he is cunning enough to take advantage of the promotional opportunity to the secret service team. “Wait, wait” So he was able to make a cup for the camera. It was a divided decision that strengthened its attitude over the American people and markets what was at the expense of democratic norms and values.

Equal Cenk Uygurconjunctive Young Turks Fame, expressed Some of them are confused admiration Because Trump handles the attack. Once upon a time, the loyal critics had to admit that Trump had an attempt to his life and that he had challenged so much. Knowing that a person’s life is threatened and never unacceptable becomes difficult to position himself, the result of the result of the same dictator will be the legitimization of a real dictator.

In a superior piece of writing that we all have to do in an obsessive manner, UMAİR HAQUE How detailed This political style Playing:

I’m not a fascist! They are real fascists !! Students, leftists, woke up mafia, anti-fascists, teachers, LGBTQ! They are in danger! They take my rights! My rights are the most important! I see cruelty, violent and barren !! I have the right to hear – and I have to say, I am superior and lower! And if you don’t let me allow me – then you are real fascist !! ‘

Haque is of course the bone dry, but the authoritarian mentality is ironic to seize the textbook Trumpkin. I often go back to this article because I think Haque’s writing style will be prophet in the coming years.

So America was so unprepared. Dreaming authoritarian – Nra In the business world – one of the permanent shadow, the “great government” was someone who preferred. One is opaque and interventionist. The idea that he will be a man who spruiks adhesive hotels, sings wide jokes, eats a drawburger and sleeps with StormyThe conservative did not come to the American spirit. Trump, American up to Elmalı Pie. Trump old school. He is the “man of a man”: so the people of the village Spasm on stage.

Trump local hero and Hollywood for right -wing America, Seçkinler, DEMS, “Libtars”, “Queers”, “illegal” and all terrible “educated” people who threaten the United States. It was pointless to armed this Neo -MUHAFAZAKAR citizens against an imaginary taking over because the real transfer Always be invisible Them.

We shouldn’t think of the left innocent. The Democrats had four years to challenge Trump’s narrative. HE Class politics played And revealed them blind spots. Now senator Bernie Sanders and representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Leading opposing narrative. I hope there is still an opportunity strong, sane sounds to dominate.

By the way, the people who warned it These dark days He was coming and he tried to bring fascism public discourse He was dismissed as “alarmist, because comparing Trump with Hitler, Many stand out Was the parallels see very meaningful?

Perhaps, as Trump said, “Bad people” signed orders of their families and MUSES for arrest orders of the governor of California. Gavin Newsom To keep the “wrong philosophy”.

Perhaps to believe in democracy and the rule of law (the irony of irony) we will be painted as the “anti -American ..

Maybe we will have Our phones were searched And if we keep our passports Return to the USA. That was the Australian writer Alistair cuisineIt is held for 12 hours because it has “wrong” views in Gaza. Thought police in force.

But fascism works like this. How did he always work. Use yourself as a sacrifice and rise against the possibility of being a “hero .. They threw you as “enemies”, “bandits” and “radicals ..

Last week we saw that the same technique was played in Australia. Thomas SewellThe former leader of Lads Society, called local Nazi and homoerotics, tried to frame herself as a “sacrifice ğinde when she claimed that the right to protest was rejected by the Victorian Prime Minister Jacinta Allan – Sewell is a patented ridiculous when he organized a court only the day before Melbourne’s CBD.

Sewell has many irony placed in angry and ridiculous worldview: He emigrated to Australia From New Zealand (“Go back where you came, or kiwi!”); A “anti -immigrant” poster child attacks people In fact, the longest here; A posterior poster child who looks quite bad in a poster. Someone else “Bert is bad“Mams? One similarity.

Still, as it is, we cannot ignore the ruthless truth A classman This is the last “Australian first” protests. This explosion of incorrectly placed anger was supported by the harsh anti -immigrant discourse of the former leader of the opposition. Peter Dutton And it is the last settlers and not, Inequality of wealth between generations Gathered by successive governments Negative gear changes and other tax reforms – this led to a current housing crisis.

It is difficult to scream around the theory of economic, but it is very easy to confuse hatred with easy (fake) solutions. It would be wise to look at Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez in the United States to combat this tendency. There is no “new left” applicable in politics Empathy in class division. Proposes studies Wealth gap is expanding. It is exactly these economic and social conditions that give rise to alternative rights.

Or to say in another way …

Closing the gap of wealth kills the narrative of “sacrifice”.

In the meantime, we can expect Trump and Sewell to continue to play classic Hitler from an old German staple. A broken pity.

But Trump will always be a convicted criminal, and this will achieve what most Sewell desires.

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Dr Alex is a playwright and social commentator. Creative Writing Teaches Screen and Drama Finders University.

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