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Incoherence isn't a bug, it's a feature.
I remember back in 2008, just before the election. I was reading the NY Post; two op-ed pieces on why Obama was terrible. One said that Obama was centrist who was pushing a soft version of the Right's polices and we should have real Right policies, not a watered down version. The other piece claimed Obama was a hard left radical with dangerous polices.
It's the way Biden can be a dangerous tyrant who heads a vast crime network and a silly, senile weakling at the same time.
Quite literally from the "book" of fascism:
Per: Umberto Eco - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism
Also Orwell on Hitler:
And Sartre on anti-semitism:
Fascism is boring. It hasn't fundamentally changed in almost a hundred years.
It says a lot about the human condition, that a sadomasochistic death cult is still so deeply appealing to so many of us.
That last line from Sartre reminds me of this Innuendo Studios video about the "alt right": https://youtu.be/yts2F44RqFw
Remember the kinder, gentler days when we all invoked Goodwin's Law. As of 2017, Godwin himself called the GOP and Trump Fascists.
If the jackboot fits...
"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
Jean-Paul Sartre
It turns out when your entire base rejects the concept of reality, you can spew whatever contradictory bullshit you want.
It's a pinch maneuver: Undermine the left's confidence, while solidifying the right's opposition.
It's quite effective too - it gave us Trump because potential left voters get the impression that "they're both the same", "Hillary had baggage", "Bernie or no reform is possible", - that kind of shit.
It doesn't engage with preventing the enormous harm of right wing policies until they are in place eg abortion access, money is speech etc.
Been going on for ages, and tbf it was that way with bush and Trump too, somehow they were both evil, criminal masterminds, and bumbling morons who can't do anything. So which is it. It's just the sides within the sides fighting out for which narrative to use. Obama got it worse though, the racism was on display and they were going after him for the stupidest bullshit like tan suits, Reagan wore tan suits all the damn time!
Stop blaming the media. Trump was open about 'liking soldiers who didn't get captured' and millions of people decided that was okay with them.
There's a difference between an editorial presented as opinion and news reporting.
The example I used was an openly right source [NY Post is owned by the Fox Media Empire]
All the facts about Trump were there for anyone to see. Pussy grabber was in all the media, as were his remarks about POWs.