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“The truth is that the masses grew out of the fragments of a highly atomized society whose competitive structure and concomitant loneliness of the individual had been held in check only through membership in a class. The chief characteristic of the mass man is not brutality and backwardness, but his isolation and lack of normal social relationships. Coming from the class-ridden society of the nation-state, whose cracks had been cemented with nationalistic sentiment, it is only natural that these masses, in the first helplessness of their new experience, have tended toward an especially violent nationalism, to which mass leaders have yielded against their own instincts and purposes for purely demagogic reasons.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“[Trump] and his ideas are not exceptional. He and the people who support him are just the latest examples of the country's ongoing betrayal. . .When we make Trump exceptional, we let ourselves off the hook. For he is us, just as surely as the slave-owning Founding Fathers were us, as surely as Lincoln with his talk of sending Black people to Liberia was us, as surely as Reagan was us with his welfare queens. When we are surprised to see the reemergence of Klansman, Neo-Nazis and other White Nationalists, we reveal our willful ignorance about how our own choices make them possible.”
― Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

“Americans didn't vote for Republicans in 2016, they voted for the Trump Rebellion.”
― Isaiah Senones

“Dumb people don't know they're dumb.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert

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― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“When the rest of the world watches the news from America, they see a third world dumpster fire. A failed state.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“People in a cult don't know they're in a cult. But everyone else can tell.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert

“Never trust a Republican.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind Of An Introvert

“Fascists like Putin, Trump, and their MAGA Nazis hate democracy, because they feel they're entitled to rule, but democracy keeps getting in the way.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert

“It's not the Illuminati or Free Masons or Lizard Aliens who control everything. It's the Republican Conspiracy that controls and manipulates you with their lies.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“In Germany, Nazis are called right-wing extremists.

In America, Nazis are called Republicans.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“Fascists use lies as a weapon.
Fascists switch the roles of victim and attacker.
Fascists accuse their victims of being fascists.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“In Germany, Nazis are called right-wing extremists. In America, Nazis are called Republicans.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert

“Seeing people who personally profited off the abuse against me being selected for Trump's cabinet scares the hell out of me. I don't know how to express to anyone the extremely weird issue of having your personal trauma wrapped up in international trauma.”
― Zoe Quinn, Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

“Most of the activists and survivors I know... knew the loudest, most hyperbolic garbage will rise to the top if left unchecked. We knew enough people in charge either don't understand, don't care, or are part of the problem.”
― Zoe Quinn, Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

“No party in the worldd will ever prevent me from preferring Truth to the Party. As soon as falsehood comes in, I am ill at ease. My role is to denounce it. It is to Truth that I am attached. If the Party abandons it, then I abandon the Party.
It is essential to see things as they are and not as we should have liked them to be.
Andre Gide”
― Andr茅 Gide, Afterthoughts: A Sequel to Back From the U.S.S.R.

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced communist Stalinist but people for whom the distinction between
fact and fiction, and the distinction between true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“While those who mouth high talk
may think themselves high-minded,
justice keeps the book
on hypocrites and liars.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Suspicion, dislike, jealousy, scapegoating. None of those are the transcendent facet of the human personality; they鈥檙e diseases. They鈥檙e cancer to the soul. They are the infectious, contagious viruses that have been breeding humanity for years. And because they have been, and because they are, is it necessary that they shall be? I think not.”
― Rod Serling

“What's surprising about the 2016 election results isn't what happened. It's what didn't happen. Trump didn't lose by 30 points or win by 20 points. Most people who voted chose the same party in 2016 that they'd chosen in 2012. That isn't to say there was nothing at all distinct or worthy of study. Crucially, white voters without college educations swung sharply toward Trump, and their overrepresentation in electorally key states won him the election. But the campaign, by the numbers, was mostly a typical contest between a Republican and a Democrat. The fact that voters ultimately treated Trump as if he were just another Republican speaks to the enormous weight party polarization now exerts on our politics.”
― Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

“We will all remember for the rest of our lives where we were on January 6th, when Trump held America hostage.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“Our task...isn't to save Trump voters. It isn't to convince them to give up their views that white people ought to matter more than others. Our task is to build a world where such a view has no place or quarter to breathe. I'm aware that this is a radical, some may even say dangerous, claim. It amounts to throwing away a large portion of the country, many of whom are willing to defend their positions with violence. But we cannot give in to these people. We know what the result will be. And I cannot watch another generation of Black children bear the burden of that choice.”
― Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

“CPAC is Comic-Con for Nazis.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“Apparently God had made life on one planet only, and only one country of that planet's dominant species needed to manage it.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment

“One of my main fears during the Trump administration was that Trumpism would outlast Trump. Frankenstein's monster had escaped the lab and turned on its masters. Hate and fear still sell. They work. They feed a 24/7 news cycle. They prey on rage and pain and ignorance and loss. They have a fertile playground. All hate needs is a new host, a new avatar, someone who is more polished, more competent, less prone to gaffes, and not compromised by debt or self-destructive tendencies.

We all have to rise up together and stop this because it will affect our present and future generations.”
― Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

“Somewhere even Neville Chamberlain is gaping in disbelief.
The storm clouds are gathering
[New York Times, 8 February 2024]”
― David Brooks

“People dull their wits with gibberish,
and cannot use their ears and eyes.

Many fail to grasp what they have seen,
and cannot judge what they have learned,
although they tell themselves they know.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Faith in miracles took the place of science, just as faith in social transformations moved the leaders of the new society. That is why those leaders eagerly welcomed every prophecy of Lysenko's. Like addicts who realize the harm of their addiction yet still pursue the narcotic, these leaders recognized the deception yet wanted to be deceived. When the promised miracles failed, the Lysenkoists did not turn back to science; instead, they drew up even more unreal plans, issued even more glowing reports, and so it went in a dizzying spiral.”
― Valery N. Soyfer, Lysenko and the Tragedy of Soviet Science

“There is nothing as empty as an empty swimming pool.”
― Raymond Chandler

“The January 17, 1984 letter to his fellow USFL team owners did encapsulate what became Donald Trump鈥檚 three-step rhetorical style, a pattern so predictable and unique it could be branded 鈥�Trump Logic.鈥� First, he confidently makes an assertion that often oversimplifies or ignores the truth of the matter. He builds upon that soft foundation with an act of clairvoyance, claiming to know what large groups of people fear, or at whom they laugh, as proof that his original assertion was true. Finally, he closes the deal by making clear that disagreeing with his un-facts or his psychic vision is prima facie evidence of stupidity.”
― Russ Buettner, Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success