William Lindsey :toad: on Nostr: "I doubt Trump ever read Orwell—or even knows who Orwell is. But that’s the thing ...
"I doubt Trump ever read Orwell—or even knows who Orwell is. But that’s the thing about authoritarians. They don’t need to learn about power from books. They understand it instinctually.
Every authoritarian is born with the ability to write the entire authoritarian playbook from scratch, as if they were downloading it from the cosmic recesses of their lizard brains."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #Orwell #authoritarianism
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-story-of-us
Every authoritarian is born with the ability to write the entire authoritarian playbook from scratch, as if they were downloading it from the cosmic recesses of their lizard brains."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #Orwell #authoritarianism
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-story-of-us