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After Life Welcomes You To Forever
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 20 ก.พ. 2022
Strongeman
What modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped).
Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin―enabling her to predict with uncanny accuracy the recent experience in America and Europe. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the future.
For ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountability while robbing their people of truth, treasure, and the protections of democracy. They promise law and order, then legitimize lawbreaking by financial, sexual, and other predators.
They use masculinity as a symbol of strength and a political weapon. Taking what you want, and getting away with it, becomes proof of male authority. They use propaganda, corruption, and violence to stay in power.
Vladimir Putin and Mobutu Sese Seko’s kleptocracies, Augusto Pinochet’s torture sites, Benito Mussolini and Muammar Gaddafi’s systems of sexual exploitation, and Silvio Berlusconi and Donald Trump’s relentless misinformation: all show how authoritarian rule, far from ensuring stability, is marked by destructive chaos.
No other type of leader is so transparent about prioritizing self-interest over the public good. As one country after another has discovered, the strongman is at his worst when true guidance is most needed by his country.
Recounting the acts of solidarity and dignity that have undone strongmen over the past 100 years, Ben-Ghiat makes vividly clear that only by seeing the strongman for what he is―and by valuing one another as he is unable to do―can we stop him, now and in the future.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin―enabling her to predict with uncanny accuracy the recent experience in America and Europe. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the future.
For ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountability while robbing their people of truth, treasure, and the protections of democracy. They promise law and order, then legitimize lawbreaking by financial, sexual, and other predators.
They use masculinity as a symbol of strength and a political weapon. Taking what you want, and getting away with it, becomes proof of male authority. They use propaganda, corruption, and violence to stay in power.
Vladimir Putin and Mobutu Sese Seko’s kleptocracies, Augusto Pinochet’s torture sites, Benito Mussolini and Muammar Gaddafi’s systems of sexual exploitation, and Silvio Berlusconi and Donald Trump’s relentless misinformation: all show how authoritarian rule, far from ensuring stability, is marked by destructive chaos.
No other type of leader is so transparent about prioritizing self-interest over the public good. As one country after another has discovered, the strongman is at his worst when true guidance is most needed by his country.
Recounting the acts of solidarity and dignity that have undone strongmen over the past 100 years, Ben-Ghiat makes vividly clear that only by seeing the strongman for what he is―and by valuing one another as he is unable to do―can we stop him, now and in the future.
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I agree that MTG is a fascist, but come on, a WHORE? That's misogynist.
Whatever dickhead!☆!
WHERE DID YOU GET ALL THIS BULLSHIT?
you are full of shyt. he was already president for 4 years and he did NOT do any of that.
Sir, you are repeating thoughts drummed into your mind by political operatives. Your thoughts are not your own. You think they are, but you've let your mind be controlled by others. Get a grip, sir. Learn to think for yourself.
Dude, You need to quit getting your opinions from a bottle of Jim Beam. Nothing you said is remotely true!
Loser
Sp, what does this have to do with any issues? Your about as demented as Biden. You don't even make sense. Hang it up. Your whore of a candidate is going to lose and you know it. Stop wasting your time.
bullshit --you guys are worse than msnbc --he is not perfect and he is 78 but at least he can sway to the music which is more than biden can and kamala is f----king tone deaf and walz is out filling the tampon dispensers lmao
You are an absolute idiot.
Thanks for your word salad .
What a grumpy old fart himself; a perfect example of projection.
Keep the faith people! Evangelicals for Harris! 💙🇺🇲💙
Funny, I posted something earlier that disappeared, which is exactly what the Matrix is all about. Kamala pushes the blue pill and people need to wake up! th-cam.com/video/ky7ksownEEE/w-d-xo.html
Was it world peace, or U.S. prosperity that made you dislike Trump?
Please don’t go vote. You are so misinformed. God bless you with knowledge.
I’m liking it! The con man at his worst. Grumpy, nasty, vindictive, liar, and an absolute ass. Thx for you comments.
Have another drink boomer.
Dead last 4 years ago. Not up on politics but if her own party thought she was that bad they must have their reasons.... Im trusting the democrat voters on this one and voting against her just like they did.
I bet this seemed funny to your senile, soy-based little mind when you recorded it. I’ll take Grumpy Trumpy over the passive aggressive cowards on the left. I will now await my message from TH-cam, telling me that I’m suspended for hate speech. Go, click the “report” button.
This is the dumbest video on TH-cam.
You are an idiot! Quit while you ae behind
Bruh get this shitbag low T
Kamala harris is a literal idiot and the world knows it. Fuck your "joy" i want secure borders and no foreign wars. LATINO AMERICANS FOR TRUMP
Yeah the Wht lib & Obama Blk haven’t been affected by Biden & Harris 🇺🇸. Illegals aren’t allowed in Obama’s backyard. While 🇺🇸’s starved Dems fed illegals. 🇺🇸’s & Dems housed them
4 views in 2 days... and you thought you really had something important and influential to say lol...
Take your lithium pal
Trump is an evil dangerous anti unionist !!
It is sad that Trump has duped working class people into voting against their own best interest.
Trump will destroy Unions, the backbone of the middle class. He will destroy our democracy if the convicted felon wins.
Trump just everything he touches
Just like China all his merchandise made in China he just tells the China president over there don't pay no mind to me I'm just running on my jaws to my sucker voters to think I'm going to do something but we're good don't worry about it just like in Ohio did he save your union jobs up there in Ohio remember how we made a promise and everything he didn't he let him go remember West Virginia and Virginia he going to bring the coke coming back full force did he do anything for years no more shutdowns happen with him than anyone call Donald Trump the poopy britches he just tells everybody what they like to hear and then he does what the billionaires want done those billionaires with cheap cheap labor and they would love some slave labor Donald Trump don't worry because he knows them suckers that follow him will vote for him every time that's why you said you got to go with the Republican party they're the dumbest people out there they're suckers for me every time and all I had to do was put the little r in front of my name
Being a union buster means he IS FOR AMERICANS. Union Thugs are communists.
this happened to my buddy Boris once.
You can't complete a sentence. Here's a tip, stop getting your information from Democrat owned main stream corporate media. When the media is owned by a political party it's not creditable news, it's just propaganda. Try finding the other sides perspective, and then weighing both "truths".
Talk about not being able to finish the sentence. This man needs to take a good long look in the mirror but I will say he's got a lot in common with Joe Biden that's obvious
White Dudes for Harris.
you obviously know nothing about the man except for what the media tells you
take your meds and go to bed
you are comparing trump's book to the bible?
Well then vote for the baby murder party
shit sucks.
trump is full of pride, wrath and envy.
Who wants that trash
Dude are you okay
Well, good thing that you have Kamala on the other side, she knows what's she's doing 👌
She shook his hand so she could tell him how to pronounce her name correctly.
Cheating democrat liars you get gour free checks cashed then you can show your ids at the voting booths just want to cheaton this election too.
He is not doing policy, he is doing concepts now
Like his supporters he can read but he doesn’t understand what he reads.