Fascists depend in large part on vast numbers of naive people who take them at their word and don’t follow politics closely. Maybe it’s hard to imagine, but it really shouldn’t be: vast numbers of people only interact with politics through biased sources, or in very small amounts. You should easily be able to work out there are literally millions of people in the US who don’t draw any connection between republicans today talking about suppressing disrespectful speech, and democrats talking about similar things for the last several years which those same republicans vehemently criticised.
Nobody’s duped. They don’t believe it. They pretend to because doing so hurts you.
Fascists depend in large part on vast numbers of naive people who take them at their word and don’t follow politics closely. Maybe it’s hard to imagine, but it really shouldn’t be: vast numbers of people only interact with politics through biased sources, or in very small amounts. You should easily be able to work out there are literally millions of people in the US who don’t draw any connection between republicans today talking about suppressing disrespectful speech, and democrats talking about similar things for the last several years which those same republicans vehemently criticised.