Politics

The Politics of Fear and Fiction.

Does the queer contrast of Trump’s dissipation from the national discourse but his augmenting prominence in the Republican party hint at the politics of fear?

President Donald Trump shushes journalists as they attempt to ask him questions during a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House on Friday. (Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton)

“Leadership means inspiring us to manage through our fears. Demagoguery means exploiting our fears for political gain. There is a crucial difference,” says Al Gore in his book, The Assault on Reason.[1]

It is the politics of phony protectors of the fearful. All they want in return for the false protection they offer is blind loyalty. Through loyalists as catalysts, fascism turned the public away from the truth and towards political fantasy. They destroy the rule of law and drag democracies towards “personalist regimes.”[2]

Trump is desperately despotic. And so is the Republican party. They sell you their ideology so persuasively that even the facts presented with evidence become unbelievable to their admirers. They create constant chaos to confuse you between the real and fallacious threat. And, in fact, they are our biggest threat. And the consequences of it are thoroughly derivable. Thus, the authoritarians like Trump thrive on the amateurishness and stupidity of the masses.