"In order to gain control of a nation accustomed to democratic rule and the gradual progress of its culture and human institutions, you have to destroy any sense of their shared interests and common ground across all demographic and cultural groups—the meat of our real history, with its warts and missteps and atrocities in open view."

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"In order to gain control of a nation accustomed to democratic rule and the gradual progress of its culture and human institutions, you have to destroy any sense of their shared interests and common ground across all demographic and cultural groups—the meat of our real history, with its warts and missteps and atrocities in open view."

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"This is why it’s so essential, in the view of Trump and his MAGA movement, to whitewash our history this way: It creates the possibility that the atrocities—which they perversely like to portray as good things—can be recreated again and again.

This is in fact what all authoritarian regimes do:"

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"The primary function of eliminationist rhetoric throughout its long and sordid history has been simple and direct: It creates permission.

It’s a green light for violence and the annihilation of common human decency. ...

The whole point of eliminationism is to create permission for violence and exclusion, and it’s difficult to do that when the memories of the misery and pain caused by previous atrocities remains fresh."

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"Eliminationism describes an ideology and politics founded on a pathological hatred and fear of entire blocs of other people, deploying rhetoric that demonizes and dehumanizes its targets, conceptualizing them as filth and vermin, actual threats to public safety and well-being, and objects fit only for elimination and eradication—the virtual embodiment of evil itself."

~ David Neiwert

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https://davidneiwert.substack.com/p/the-history-we-hide-trumps-war-on