"Today, this explains why red state legislators can continue to focus on oppressing women and LGBTQ+ people instead of improving conditions for their states’ residents, while the poorest whites among them continue to re-elect them."

#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/21

Jay Kuo asks why Trump constantly inflicts pain on his own followers and why they love him for it. He points to Timothy Snyder's term "sadopopulism,” "a terrifying but winning strategy if it isn’t addressed head-on and stopped in its tracks."

#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy
/15

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-sadopopulism-ice-maga

"And when you zoom out a bit, you see that the entire Confederacy, and even the post-Civil War era of Jim Crow in the South, was built upon sadopopulism. It explains the public torture and lynchings of Black citizens while whites looked on with their children in tow, as if attending a happy social gathering."

#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/19

"Today, this explains why red state legislators can continue to focus on oppressing women and LGBTQ+ people instead of improving conditions for their states’ residents, while the poorest whites among them continue to re-elect them."

#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/21

"It explains how rich property owners in the South could continue to justify massive wealth inequality while dire poverty persisted in those states. The problem wasn’t the oligarchs; it was the Blacks, so the narrative went."

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/20

"And when you zoom out a bit, you see that the entire Confederacy, and even the post-Civil War era of Jim Crow in the South, was built upon sadopopulism. It explains the public torture and lynchings of Black citizens while whites looked on with their children in tow, as if attending a happy social gathering."

#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/19

"It’s all encompassing and all powerful, and you just want so badly for it to harm others more than you. So instead of thinking about how we all might prosper together in the future, Trump would see us cast into different competing groups, fighting over scraps, trying to feel less relative pain."

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/18

"If Trump can successfully make people ignore what is actually happening and focus instead on long-held divisions and resentments, then his voters could find solace knowing that at least they are better off than them.

And the government? Trump wants people to understand that it inflicts pain. It makes you hurt."

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/17

"If you teach people that life is full of pain and grievance, Snyder argues, then at least Trump’s voters have the consolation that they are not suffering as badly as immigrants, minorities and queer people. And that, it turns out, is a powerful motivator."

#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy #homophobia#MaleEntitlement
/16

Jay Kuo asks why Trump constantly inflicts pain on his own followers and why they love him for it. He points to Timothy Snyder's term "sadopopulism,” "a terrifying but winning strategy if it isn’t addressed head-on and stopped in its tracks."

#Trump #sadopopulism #cruelty #fascism#Confederacy#WhiteSupremacy
/15

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-sadopopulism-ice-maga