Ruth Ben-Ghiat explains how her mother got radicalized watching Russia Today

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Always appreciate both of You, sharing Your Knowledge & Wisdom. I understand, & remember, tfg's "American CARNAGE" , the speech, his intentions, his actions & policies.. & the reality WE survived, & too many did not. 🕯 WE WILL NOT GO BACK. Thank YOU again, please take Care. ✌🏼💙✊🏼💙🙏🏼💙🐾

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This conversation is important and the points Ms Applebaum is making are basic enough that they are good talking points for conversations with like-minded people & those who think they are diametrically different from ‘those people.’

I've been wanting a crossover like this for years. It's like the Infinity War event but for the critical thinkers of our time that we desperately need for people to hear. Thank you for posting this

The first principle is you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool (R. Feynman, Phd)

Toddlers with Lego blocks get so easily frustrated and just knock all the blocks down. So much easier than constructing something new or revising something already established.

Anne Applebaum and Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Now there's a dream team

Saint Anne

Exactly, Anne. My massive beef with the Women's March, you have to have it BEFORE THE ELECTION! They waited until after the INAUGURATION. FFS. It was a great day, but such a huge mistake in timing. I hope they've learned, who ever the organizers were.

Please Americans, do the right thing. The world depends on you no matter what position they take. The absence of America in world affairs would be a disaster whatever one's political leanings.

I believe much of the support for Trump is reactionary. My mother used to watch NBC / MSNBC...and when Imus in the morning [kind of an unwatchable, slow moving Morning Joe at the time] was cancelled (he-IMUS- made some "these are thugs, ghetto" comment about WNBA players, which seemed almost all too prescient when we've seen WNBA players assaulting that new player out of some rages of resentment and jealousy, let's ignore that racial aspect), then years later she is watching FOX, so forth......I believe now it was a reaction against that what she considered probably an overreaction by the elitist left.

The only Show I liked on RT (Russia Today) was On Contact with Chris Hedges

Yeah, it's amazing how easy that can happen, even among intelligent otherwise decent people, with a lifetime of cultural conditioning and propaganda to think of one's self as having a "manifest destiny" and/or thinking of other humans as "untermenchen" who are in the way of you and your "labensraum"....

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My mom was Part of radical republican group John Birch Society as well as maga-churches and "Name it, Claim it" and "god wants you to be rich" televangelists. When trump came along, she was pre-conditioned for his grift. It was so bad, our family couldn't stand to be around her. Well, she got pancreatic cancer, diagnosed in February, she died Apr 27, 2024. The last week of her life we were all with her. She never mentioned trump or anything maga. She died in peace, thank God.

I’ve never understood this very common phenomenon of the liberal child and the Fox News watching parent. Don’t these children have a responsibility to educate their parents ?

Unfortunately we listened to the pundits who assure us Trump would never win. Never again! We won’t go back. Vote the whole ballot blue!