Comment on The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline
sculd@beehaw.org 2 weeks agoAgreed. Anyone who studies history should understand why Trumpism is bad and unsustainable.
But a lot of people are just in for the historical “aesthetics”.
Comment on The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline
sculd@beehaw.org 2 weeks agoAgreed. Anyone who studies history should understand why Trumpism is bad and unsustainable.
But a lot of people are just in for the historical “aesthetics”.
aleph@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Aesthetics, plus the seductive appeal that pre-modern, pre-liberal-democratic societies (where the women were submissive and “the men were men”) have for reactionaries, incels, and cryptofacists.