Post #3346436
2026-06-18 17:25 UTC
Paraphrasing Daniel Baryon from his Work “a modern anarchism”:
Authoritarian is the description of a system that behaves in such a way that institutional power is concentrated into the hands of a minority.
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@RiverRock@lemmy.ml 2026-06-19 02:52
As definitions go that’s a pretty decent one, but if we adopt it then we have to recognize that Trump and his people arent really unique about only in his openness about it. The US has always been an authoritarian oligarchy, there were just a few decades when the ruling class found it useful to pretend otherwise. This is not to take the heat off of Trump and his coterie of tradcath fascist weirdos, but to extend it to the more “normal, respectable” fascists who also richly deserve it, but who we have been taught to view as less bad.