"Jeez.

William Lindsey :toad:

In the passages attached below from his book Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (NY: Knopf, 2014), Charles Marsh chronicles how the drive among Germany's Protestant leaders for a "manly Christianity" played a major role in facilitating Hitler's rise to power in the early 1930s.

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troy_friz_zell

@wdlindsy

Can we just not pretend that Politico is journalism acting in good faith?

It's not.

William Lindsey :toad:

Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (NY: Random House, 2018), on how aspiring fascist leaders deliberately distort and exploit male anxiety about loss of status to gain power.

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William Lindsey :toad:

Jason Stanley (ibid.) sees a direct line between the exploitation of male anxiety about perceived loss of status by aspiring fascist leaders, and their attacks on LGBTQ and especially trans individuals.

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William Lindsey :toad:

Stanley also notes that the obsession with declining birthrates — especially among white women — within fascist movements, an obsession Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and JD Vance want to put front and center now, is linked to fascist aspirations. Women need to be put back into "their place" as mothers, and spanked back into place if they refuse.

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William Lindsey :toad:

“The leader’s displays of machismo and his kinship with other male leaders are not just bluster, but a way of exercising power at home and conducting foreign policy. Virility enables his corruption, projecting the idea that he is above laws that weaker individuals must follow."

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~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (NY: Norton, 2020), pp. 7-8

William Lindsey :toad:

"It also translates into state policies that target women and LGBTQ+ populations, who are as much the strongman’s enemies as prosecutors and the press. ….

Virility, in the form of the leader’s dominance over women and other men, has pride of place in his [i.e., the strongman’s] plans for national transformation

~ Ibid., and p. 66

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/17

William Lindsey :toad:

@troy_frizzell I certaintly don't read any of the commentators I've excerpted above to be pretending that Politico is journalism acting in good faith. Au contraire.

William Lindsey :toad:

@philip_cardella @GottaLaff I very much appreciate the encouragement, and share your admiration for the wonderful job @GottaLaff does daily to keep us informed and thinking. I did keep a blog for some years, and then, as I went into full retirement, found my energy for doing so was waning, so I gave it up. I'm afraid I have even less energy now!

William Lindsey :toad:

@samiamsam Indeed.

William Lindsey :toad:

@philip_cardella Can it get any more blatant? But it's taken as totally normal — but a shocking number of us.

William Lindsey :toad:

@philip_cardella Definitely unusual and terrifying, and totally in line with long-studied trends in rising fascist groups of the past.

William Lindsey :toad:

@SordidAmok Yes, it seems that beating women is now the focus, and not racial distinctions in the women to be beaten. They talked about spanking Hillary Clinton in the very same way.

William Lindsey :toad:

@PeasLuvnJustice Yes, women are to be viewed as and treated as dependent children, with male authority figures as the wise and ruling father who keeps them on the straight and narrow path and punishes them — for their own good, of course — if they deviate. This is in line with the thinking of aeons of patriarchy bolstered by religious ideology.

William Lindsey :toad:

@stevensanderson Yes, this rhetoric betrays some deep insecurities in men spreading it around, doesn't it?

Steven P. Sanderson II, MPH

@wdlindsy it most certainly does. An ego so fragile they must try to destroy what they disagree with or what glorious leader disagrees with.

William Lindsey :toad:

@stevensanderson That's very well-stated. I agree!

Nazani

@wdlindsy No only are we not going back, we're paying increased attention to the lyrics to "Goodbye Earl."

William Lindsey :toad:

""The fact that the disobedient child in this fantasy is a girl is not an accident either. The MAGA right sees Blue America as essentially female, or female-dominated—and, of course, currently led by a woman."

~ Cathy Young

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/18

Don’t Blame Kamala

If she loses—and it really is a toss up—the questions we must ask are about ourselves.

(www.thebulwark.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"The authoritarianism has a distinctly misogynist flavor, of a piece with all the other misogynist rhetoric we’ve seen from the right in this campaign: Real men are coming back to put all those misbehaving women in their place."

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