Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: Rafael Behr concludes that democracy's defences against Fascism built on a knowledge ...
Rafael Behr concludes that democracy's defences against Fascism built on a knowledge of how it played out last time are not only being ignored & obscured, they have become ineffective:
'the usual way of imparting [the lessons of history] has stopped working, which means – and I really want to be wrong about this – they will have to be relearned the hard way'
If so, things may get a hell of a lot worse before they even start to get a bit better... grim times!
#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/12/musk-revolution-lessons-20th-century-deleted-far-right-silicon-valley
'the usual way of imparting [the lessons of history] has stopped working, which means – and I really want to be wrong about this – they will have to be relearned the hard way'
If so, things may get a hell of a lot worse before they even start to get a bit better... grim times!
#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/12/musk-revolution-lessons-20th-century-deleted-far-right-silicon-valley