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Brian J Griffith

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Modern European historian. Writing book on 🍷 in Fascist Italy. . . Projects: @NewFascismSyllabus.bsky.social @WMAB-2018-2019.bsky.social . . Websites: https://www.brianjgriffith.com https://www.newfascismsyllabus.com https://www.wheremonstersareborn.com

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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 4d

I've been looking for Andy my whole life ...

UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 4d

Interested in teaching LOOKING FOR ANDY GRIFFITH: A Father's Journey by @evandaltonsmith.bsky.social? Check out this resource page with discussion and teaching resources, playlists, links to interviews and more 👏

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LOOKING FOR ANDY GRIFFITH Learning Resources · Discussion and teaching resources for the book, "Looking for Andy Griffith," including a guide, music playlist, links to interviews, downloads, and more....

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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 4d

This reminds me of one of Jesus' beatitudes: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall turn the Department of Defense into the Department of War.”

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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 4d

Labeling anti-fascism as a "terrorist movement"? Dr. Mark Bray stopped at Newark Airport? Deploying the National Guard to left-leaning American cities? Talk of invoking the Insurrection Act? Now's the time to start putting together a more detailed Plan B.

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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 5d

...master manipulator, who is using this Hitlerian strategy of the Big Lie to build an anti-democratic movement within our constitutional democracy. This process will end in either the destruction of Trump's MAGA movement, or in the destruction of our Republic. 8/8

Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 5d

...America") using simple slogans ("Make America Great Again"; "Crooked Hillary"; "Sleepy Joe Biden") in order to "drive ... home" his intended "few points" so that "even the simplest can grasp what [he has] in mind." Trump is, simply put, a professional liar and... 7/8

Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 5d

In the United States today, Donald J. Trump has adapted Hitler's "Big Lie" approach to his party's struggle for dominance within the so-called "culture wars." He has developed a politics of emotion ("We're going to lose our country to this Radical Left that hates... 6/8

Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 5d

...second "the Jews." This is what is known as the "Big Lie" — the manipulation a general public's perception of reality in order to harness their collective mentality towards what are more often than not illiberal objectives. 5/8

Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 5d

...attention and move their hearts," which can then be used as political tools against one's perceived "enemies," which in Hitler's case was first the "Radical Left" (i.e. communists, socialists, anarchists, labor union leaderships, rank-and-file workers, etc.) and... 4/8

Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 5d

...towards their political objectives must take into account that the "attention span of the masses is very short," and so therefore Strongmen leaders must "concentrate on very few points and drive them home through simple slogans." Doing this will "catch their... 3/8

Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 5d

...the masses toward certain facts, events, necessities, etc." These matters should be "brought to their attention," Hitler continues, by way of appealing "to the emotions and far less to the so-called intellect." Leaders who want to manipulate the general public... 2/8

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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 5d

In his 1925 political manifesto, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), Adolf Hitler wrote openly about how to "professionally" lie to the masses for political objectives. "The task of propaganda," he writes, "does not lie in the scientific training of individuals, but in directing... 1/8

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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 6d

“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus.” — Turkish Proverb

Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 6d

The capacity of the American far right for self-delusion and projection would be laughable if it wasn't so frightening, politically speaking.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not."

Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 8d

"... a sense of communal belonging and drained modernity of meaning and transcendence and usher in a new era of cultural homogeneity and health." -- Roger Griffin, historian of comparative fascisms 2/2

Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 8d

"Fascism is a form of programmatic modernism that seeks to conquer political power in order to realize its totalizing vision of national or ethnic rebirth. Its ultimate end is to overcome the decadence that has destroyed ..." 1/2

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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 10d

Not to be mixed up with Vox, the Spanish far-right party!

Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 11d

SCREENSHOT 3: A 20th century German cartoon depicting a Jewish "puppet master" controlling politicians on the stage below.

Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 11d

SCREENSHOT 2: A graphic sent out in one of Donald Trump's 2023 newsletters depicting George Soros -- a Jewish billionaire and liberal philanthropist -- as a "puppet master" looming ominously over the White House.

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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 11d

Something for everyone to consider:

SCREENSHOT 1: An announcement by the CFA explaining that the Trump administration's USEEO Commission has filed an "antisemitism complaint" against the CSU system for systemic discrimination against Jewish applicants/faculty members.

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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 13d

Screenshot 2: Italo Balbo -- one of four "quadrumviri" or fascist hierarchs -- on his time as a Blackshirt terrorist in Benito Mussolini's early Italian Fighting Squads movement, targeting leftists for organizing working people in post-WWI Italy. 3/3

Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 13d

Screenshot 1: An Alternative Press headline quoting Trump proclaiming his intentions to combat the "enemy from within." 2/3

Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 13d

Carrying out acts of "war" against an "internal enemy" (which is defined in ideological and, oftentimes, racial terms) is one of many markers of a fascistic political culture. 1/3

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Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social · 15d