User Clip: "Which side are you on anyway?" Christopher Hitchens on the creeping fascism in America



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January 2, 2017 User-Created Clipby dyedinksun January 2, 2017 1995-07-04T21:04:31-04:00 https://images.c-span.org/Files/5c0/19950704210915001_hd.jpg "There is a feeble insurgent pulse that beats at the heart of the bucolic fascist movement . . . As Richard Hofstadter, in The Paranoid Style in American Politics, and Theodor Adorno, in The Authoritarian Personality, have both taught us, this kind of American 'populism' has always been tainted by its kinship with racism and superstition, and by its servility to the very power it ostensibly rails against." This speech was made not long after an election year where Newt Gingrich's 'republican revolution' had newly elected senators with open ties to the militia movement and the 'Ultra-Right' with all the sinister propaganda of a New World Order and antisemitism that goes with. It was also was after the Oklahoma City Bombing. "Change only the name and this story is about you." ich bin ein bitburger, "victims just as much" ... "on both sides." Oliver North, Gordon Liddy, Rush Limbaugh, Charles Lindbergh... Mike Flynn, Steve Bannon, etc. "There is a feeble insurgent pulse that beats at the heart of the bucolic fascist movement . . . As Richard Hofstadter, in The Paranoid… read more

"There is a feeble insurgent pulse that beats at the heart of the bucolic fascist movement . . . As Richard Hofstadter, in The Paranoid Style in American Politics, and Theodor Adorno, in The Authoritarian Personality, have both taught us, this kind of American 'populism' has always been tainted by its kinship with racism and superstition, and by its servility to the very power it ostensibly rails against." This speech was made not long after an election year where Newt Gingrich's 'republican revolution' had newly elected senators with open ties to the militia movement and the 'Ultra-Right' with all the sinister propaganda of a New World Order and antisemitism that goes with. It was also was after the Oklahoma City Bombing. "Change only the name and this story is about you." ich bin ein bitburger, "victims just as much" ... "on both sides." Oliver North, Gordon Liddy, Rush Limbaugh, Charles Lindbergh... Mike Flynn, Steve Bannon, etc. close

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