You can't make this stuff up.
Like, this is a real line from a real Politico article about how Trump's jokes are "tricks" meant to "normalize" his fascist behavior:
Trump is not Hitler or Stalin or Mussolini. But they share a rhetorical style, experts say.
"Experts say."
Sorry for the fascism, but,
Yes, Politico wrote an entire article concerning Trump's use of comedy and how it's basically fascism.
I'll quote the article again, but I warn you, this author is hard to follow.
The point is what being funny in the way that he's being funny is letting him do — and what it is doing to his supporters. "Because he's doing something really serious," Leif Weatherby, a professor at New York University and a co-organizer of the Working Group on the Global New Right, told me, "with humor."
He's certainly not the first.
"A dollop of humor makes the anti-establishment rage go down," as the writer Noah Berlatsky wrote in 2020 for Foreign Policy in a piece headlined "Fascists Know How to Turn Mockery Into Power. " "Horseplay is necessary," believed Joseph Goebbels, one of Adolf Hitler's closest, most loyal advisers and the Nazis' top propagandist. "Mussolini," Ruth Ben-Ghiat, the author of Strongmen, told me, referring to 20th-century Italian fascist Benito Mussolini, "had the same twisted sense of humor" as Trump. And stenograms of Communist Party and Politburo meetings in the era of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union show no shortage of notations of laughter — from jokes made at the expense of somebody about to be on the outs to a sort of forced or sycophantic fun. "There's a lot," Maya Vinokour, a scholar of Stalinism, told me, "and that even ends up being true as the purges start."
See, guys, fascists are jokesters.
And that means Trump must be a fascist!!!
One more line of this hilarity and then I'll stop, I promise.
"This comic-authoritarian politics has some advantages over the older dictatorial style. It allows a threat to democracy to appear as at worst a tasteless prank," O'Toole wrote. "Trump's audiences, in other words, are not passive. This comedy is a joint enterprise of performer and listener. It gives those listeners the opportunity for consent and collusion."
When you laugh at Trump's jokes you are consenting to fascism. Did you know that? Now you do.
Man, Trump's ability to play 4D chess is just out of this world. Who knew that by making us all laugh Trump was simply being a fascist dictator. Boy, I'm so glad Politico published this article. Without it, how would we know that comedy is fascism?
Bravo, Politico!
Okay, here's what the internet had to say about this hilarious article from Politico:
Sorry for all the fascism, folks!
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