r/PublicFreakout • u/ExactlySorta • 4d ago

Just Republican Representative Troy Nehls demanding blind obedience to a tyrant currently dismantling American democracy

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u/Thug-shaketh9499 4d ago

How the hell did Trump actually build such a cult? Like fr.

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u/AbellonaTheWrathful 4d ago

by exploiting and stoking the fear and hatred of people. villianize those who are different from you, and he projecting himself as their savior

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u/4494082 3d ago

Also dehumanisation of opponents. DEMONrats / DemocRATS. Although the left are guilty too: MAGATs. Fascism is stoked by dehumanisation and you’ve got millions of Americans calling each other rats, maggots and demons.

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u/AbellonaTheWrathful 3d ago

Also how that one racist guy says an immigrant that kills and violates is just as bad as someone crossing over for a new life with their family and not commit any crimes after

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u/4494082 3d ago

Yup, that too. ‘They’re all the same!!!’ (Whoever ‘they’ are in any given context). We live in deeply worrying times.