> ... fascist agitation has by now come to be a profession, as it were, a livelihood. It had plenty of time to test the effectiveness of its various appeals, and through what might be called natural selection, only the most catchy ones have survived. Their effectiveness is itself a function of the psychology of the consumers....

> .. the surviving appeals have been standardized, similarly to the advertising slogans, which proved to be most valuable in the promotion of business. This standardization, in turn, falls in line with stereotypical thinking, that is to say, with the “stereopathy” of those susceptible to this propaganda and their infantile wish for endless, unaltered repetition.

> ... their very “phoniness” may have been relished cynically and sadistically as an index for the fact that power alone decided one’s fate in the Third Reich, that is, power unhampered by rational objectivity.

- counterpunch.org/2025/04/11/wh…

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Roaming Charges: Who Shot the Tariffs? - CounterPunch.org

The contradictions of life in late-capitalist America under Trump: Most Americans want the return of manufacturing jobs to the US, as long as they don't have to work them.

^{Jeffrey St. Clair (CounterPunch.org)}