Johnson + McConnell call on VP Harris to stop calling Trump a fascist

[William Seger]

65. "The futility of pointing out the blatant hypocrisy from the Trump GOP..."

...is evidence of a creeping fascism."

From Hypocrisy to Fascism: https://thevimblog.com/2018/08/07/hypocrisy-to-fascism/

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A feature of fascism is its incoherence and internal inconsistency.

As Stanley points out, fascist campaigns are corrupt to their core and yet run on anti-corruption messaging. They appeal to the dominant group by depicting the group as victims. A fascist speaks for the whole and yet doesn’t care about others, as Albright says. Arendt notices the tension too: a fascist campaign is a non-movement movement. (She also discusses the incoherence of totalitarianism.) “The enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak,” says Umberto Eco in an influential piece. Adorno discusses the different irrationalities in fascism and its propaganda. See also note 1 of “History: a Retro Scenario” in Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation.

The incoherence of fascism has implications for what I am doing here. Understanding fascism requires recognizing the futility of the task—because our notion of understanding, with its reliance on certain logical rules and operations, becomes political under fascism. A coherent picture of fascism is only possible within fascism. From the outside we can only understand that fascism is internally inconsistent. So we must be aware of the self-referential point: the fact that fascism is incoherent has implications for how we go about defining it. It also has implications for how we interact with fascists.

Now how does this relate to hypocrisy?

Hypocrisy is Inconsistency

Hypocrisy is acting in a way that is inconsistent with one’s principles. The Trump era has been an unceasing process of confronting inconsistency and incoherence.

I believe that the GOP has simply discovered that hypocrisy is a great gaslighting tool.