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#fascism #dictators #RuthBenGhiat
Why do people support dictators? How do dictators come to power? Wired teamed up with history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat to answer the internet's burning questions about authoritarianism and fascism.

History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
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History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
#WIRED
Mar 18, 2025
Professor and authoritarianism scholar #RuthBenGhiat joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about #dictators and #fascism. Why do people support dictators? How do dictators come to power? What's the difference between a #dictatorship, an #autocracy, and #authoritarianism? What are the most common personality traits found in #tyrants and dictators? Is Xi Jinping a dictator? How do dictators amass wealth? Professor Ben-Ghiat answers these questions and many more on Tech Support: Dictator Support.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Tulsi Gabbard Fits Right Into Trump’s Vision for America

Six years ago, Mr. Trump suggested he was open to closer relationships with the world’s dictators…intelligence suggests that he intends to renew the invitation. Autocrats may well find an even warmer reception in America during the second Trump administration. Our democracy will pay the price."

#RuthBenGhiat #TulsiGabbard

Gift link: nytimes.com/2025/01/30/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | Tulsi Gabbard Fits Right Into Trump’s Vision for AmericaBy Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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/2 "It was a Nazi salute." Historian dismisses Musk's fascist salute
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"Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute" -- Ruth Ben-Ghiat, NYU
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Musk’s Estranged trans Daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson Condemns Inauguration Salute
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#RuthBenGhiat
#billionaires #ElonMusk #NeoNazism #whiteSupremacism
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025
#HegemonicMasculinity #ToxicMasculinity
#Christofascism #transgenocide

Salon · "It was a Nazi salute": Historian dismisses claim that Musk's raised arm was mere "awkward gesture""Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too," wrote NYU's Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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WOW! I didn't know this about these historians! A #MustListenEpisode

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#Episode213: The Shallow, Power-Flattering appeal of high Status #Resistance #Historians

#AnneApplebaum , #TimothySnyder, #RuthBenGhiat , etc. have become liberal-friendly experts on #authoritarianism.

Citations Needed looks at the advent and influence of MSNBC-approved #historians dissecting their SELECTIVE #antiauthoritarian posture and discussing how their work does little more than polish their careers and provide cover for U.S. and U.S.-allied #militarism.

Later on, is guest #GregGrandin (upcoming #book in April 2025)

#FreePalestineNOW 🇵🇸 #history #farright

citationsneeded.libsyn.comCitations Needed: Episode 213: The Shallow, Power-Flattering Appeal of High Status #Resistance Historians"The Bad Guys Are Winning," wrote Anne Applebaum for The Atlantic in 2021. "The War on History Is a War on Democracy," warned Timothy Snyder in The New York Times, also in 2021. "The GOP has found a Putin-lite to fawn over. That's bad news for democracy," argued Ruth Ben-Ghiat on MSNBC the following year, 2022. Within the last 10 years or so, and especially since the 2016 election of Trump, these authors — Anne Applebaum, Timothy Snyder, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, in addition to several others — have become liberal-friendly experts on authoritarianism. On a regular basis, they make appearances on cable news and in the pages of legacy newspapers and magazines–in some cases, as staff members–in order to warn of how individual, one-off “strongmen” like Trump, Putin, Orban, and Xi, made up a vague “authoritarian” axis hellbent on destroying Democracy for its own sake. But what good does this framing do and who does it absolve? Instead of meaningfully contending with US's sprawling imperial power and internal systems of oppression — namely being the largest carceral state in the world — these MSNBC historians reheat decades-old Axis of Evil or Cold War good vs evil rhetoric, pinning the horrors of centuries of political violence on individual "mad men." Meanwhile, they selectively invoke the "authoritarian" label, fretting about the need to save some abstract notion of democracy from geopolitical Bad Guys while remaining silent as the US funds, arms and backs the most authoritarian process imaginable — the immiseration and destruction of an entire people — specifically in Gaza. On this episode, we look at the advent and influence of MSNBC-approved historians, dissecting their selective anti-authoritarian posture and discussing how their work does little more than polish their careers and provide cover for US and US-allied militarism. Our guest is historian and author Greg Grandin.
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They had 107 days.

The #OrangeShitGibbon has been operating for decades, backed by #oligarchs and #Fascism the whole time.

This moment has been coming for a long time.

See:
#TimSnyder
#SarahKendzidor
#RuthBenGhiat
#NaomiKlein
#AnneNelson

Blaming #KamalaHarris is like when you had the big party in High School while your parents were away and
blaming the last kid to show up to the party - for you getting busted when the cops show up.

#VeryShallowThinking
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OUR COMMON GROUND

"Il Duce replaced democratic elections with occasional plebiscites. In 1934, as he prepared to invade Ethiopia and was dealing with increased internal unrest, he staged a vote. Italians were actually weighing in on a purge of the political class: a single list he had approved of nominees for seats in Parliament, with the choices YES or NO."

#RuthBenGhiat author,
#Strongmen
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#election2024 #DonaldTrump #Fascism #authoritarianism @ruthbenghiat

Lucid · From Mussolini to Trump, Elections are the Autocrat's EnemyBy Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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William Lindsey :toad:

"The U.S. Naval Academy’s history department invited NYU historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat to give a guest lecture this month about what happens to militaries under authoritarian rule, then the Heritage Foundation and other right-wing figures launched a pressure campaign and the academy disinvited her."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #RuthBenGhiat
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Morning Memo · Kamala Harris Plans To Close With A Strong Anti-Fascism MessageBy David Kurtz
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