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[garret_lab]

Профессор Снайдер: "If Trump is not a fascist, this is only in the precise sense that he is not even a fascist". А в какой-то из лекций ещё добавил что-то вроде "ну, например, он слишком ленив для настоящего фашиста"...

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[timelets]

Полная цитата дает возможность лучше понять сравнение:

If Trump is not a fascist, this is only in the precise sense that he is not even a fascist. He strikes a fascist pose, and then issues generic palliative remarks and denies responsibility for his words and actions. But since total irresponsibility is a central part of the fascist tradition, it is perhaps best to give Trump his due credit as an innovator.

[garret_lab]

Кстати, я вполне разделяю призывы профессора Снайдера относиться серьёзно к политическим талантам мистера Трампа и к опасности, которую эти таланты представляют для США и для остальной планеты.

[timelets]

Один раз недооценили; второй раз это будет сделать сложнее.

[tijd]

В книжке "How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them" Джейсон Стэнли, коллега Снайдера по Йелю, говорит без экивоков.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Fascism-Works-Politics-Them/dp/0525511830/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qubr4MZZSfU

Even the reader who finds much to admire in Stanley’s book may still wonder why he employs the term “fascist” so freely. In his epilogue, Stanley offers an answer. Citing a 2017 study in the journal Cognition, he observes that “judgments of normality are affected both by what people think is statistically normal and what they think is ideally normal.” Thus, if American politicians routinely associate Latino immigrants with murder and rape, Americans may grow less outraged by such accusations simply because they occur so often. Stanley supports this scholarly insight with a personal one, from his grandmother, a German Jew who wrote about the way Jews in Berlin psychologically accommodated themselves to Hitler’s rule as late as 1937: “We were still able to leave the country; we could still live in our homes; we could still worship in our temples; we were in a Ghetto, but the majority of our people were still alive.”
By calling Trump a “fascist” — a word that strikes many Americans as alien and extreme — Stanley is trying to spark public alarm. He doesn’t want Americans to respond to Trump’s racist, authoritarian offensives by moving their moral goal posts. The greater danger, he suggests, isn’t hyperbole, it’s normalization.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/books/review/jason-stanley-how-fascism-works.html

[garret_lab]

Да, я слушал несколько роликов профессора Стэнли. Надо бы его книжки почитать тоже.