RE: Kamala Harris running mate Tim Walz speech.7 Aug 2024 22:33
Mick,
From this article:
'Authoritarians have no problem with being called evil, Ben-Ghiat continued. But they despise being called weird — because it means they aren't being taken seriously; it means they're being made fun of, rather than feared. They understand that when they become subjects of satire, people necessarily question everything about them... Despots and aspiring despots, she continued, "have their own sadistic sense of humor, which is amply displayed in the awful authoritarian spectacles staged by their governments" ... but "cannot take a joke when they are the targets. That’s why they have to surround themselves with sycophants and lackeys, and their enablers know their prestige must be policed. When a man brought his pet rabbit named Mussolini to a bar in fascist Italy, thinking others would enjoy seeing him order it around, he was quickly arrested and served a year in confinement."
https://www.rawstory.com/news/harris-trump-weird/