Rachel Maddow discusses her research into fascism, disinformation, and propaganda.
It's not merely an attempt to foster animosity towards a particular group. Fascist disinformation is to erode our democracy by convincing us that a specific group is perilous, untrustworthy, and should be disenfranchised.
What has transpired since 2016 with the former president is not just the vilification of ethnic minorities. He, along with Fox propaganda and other purveyors of disinformation, have escalated lies and disinformation into a violent domestic terrorist movement and a MAGA-driven fascist party. The presence of Republican fascists is a reality now.
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Fascism ... is about getting us to undo #democracy and we shouldn't stand for it.
@skykiss relevant tangent-- another significant goal of fascist disinformation is to undermine people's belief in the very notions of "truth" and "facts", so that genuine truth and facts can be dismissed by followers as just "opinion" or "perspective". As the zone gets flooded, it's more difficult yet more critically important to be able to pick the facts of a situation out from the intentional flood of disinformation.
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