Adam Nichols
October 1, 2023
Brian Klaas (MSNBC Screengrab)
A political analyst warned Sunday that Donald Trump’s followers “will try to kill people” as the former president’s violent rhetoric ramps up – and it's increasingly being normalized.
Brian Klaas, an associate professor in global politics at University College London, told MSNBC’s The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart that, while the nation apparently isn’t taking Trump’s threats seriously, a group of his followers is hanging on every word.
And Klaas warned that they will take action
“It has become the banality of crazy incitements of violence, a sort of normalcy,” he said.
He detailed recent outbursts from Trump: “You have him, you know, suggesting that you could execute America's top general. On Friday night, he joked about Paul Pelosi being attacked, the crowd laughed when he was referencing, you know, sort of an 82-year-old man being hit in the head with a hammer.
“He called to execute people who shoplift from stores, a very minor crime. One we need to take seriously, but not one where they should face execution. He has demonized a number of people in his outburst on Truth Social, and in front of crowds.
"This is related to a term called stochastic terrorism. It's an academic jargon term, what it basically means is that when someone who is very powerful and influential targets or demonizes individual groups in the public, at least a small number of their followers will take them as marching orders.
“What is highly likely, going into the 2024 election, a small subset of Trump's very well-armed extremists base will try to kill people.”
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'Authoritarian' GOP has become 'dependent on violence for its identity': historian
Alex Henderson, AlterNet
September 30, 2023
Paul Gosar (AFP)
During a Thursday, September 28 speech in Arizona, President Joe Biden paid tribute to the late conservative Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) and sounded the alarm about the threats that "MAGA Republicans" pose to democracy in the United States.
Biden's tone was not anti-conservative. He was joined onstage by McCain's widow, conservative activist Cindy McCain, and Biden fondly recalled his years working with John McCain in the U.S. Senate. But the president attacked the MAGA movement as dangerously authoritarian — a warning that author/history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat agreed with during an appearance on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" a few hours after Biden's speech.
Ben-Ghiat, known for her expertise on authoritarianism and her book "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present," told liberal host Joy Reid, "We really need to take very seriously how this fusion between the Proud Boys and all these other extremist groups is going on. And so, this is part of the GOP's trajectory to become an autocratic party."
When Reid mentioned that former Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) joined former President Donald Trump in suggesting that Joints Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley should be executed, Ben-Ghiat responded, "Unfortunately, for us, in America…. we only have these two parties. And one of them has become an authoritarian party that is dependent on violence and on corruption for its identity."
READ MORE: Busted: Trump's fascist coup exposed again
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Alex Henderson, AlterNet
September 30, 2023
Paul Gosar (AFP)
During a Thursday, September 28 speech in Arizona, President Joe Biden paid tribute to the late conservative Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) and sounded the alarm about the threats that "MAGA Republicans" pose to democracy in the United States.
Biden's tone was not anti-conservative. He was joined onstage by McCain's widow, conservative activist Cindy McCain, and Biden fondly recalled his years working with John McCain in the U.S. Senate. But the president attacked the MAGA movement as dangerously authoritarian — a warning that author/history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat agreed with during an appearance on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" a few hours after Biden's speech.
Ben-Ghiat, known for her expertise on authoritarianism and her book "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present," told liberal host Joy Reid, "We really need to take very seriously how this fusion between the Proud Boys and all these other extremist groups is going on. And so, this is part of the GOP's trajectory to become an autocratic party."
When Reid mentioned that former Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) joined former President Donald Trump in suggesting that Joints Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley should be executed, Ben-Ghiat responded, "Unfortunately, for us, in America…. we only have these two parties. And one of them has become an authoritarian party that is dependent on violence and on corruption for its identity."
READ MORE: Busted: Trump's fascist coup exposed again
Watch the video below
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