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Ruth Ben-Ghiat Quotes

born 1960 United States

Ruth Ben-Ghiat (born April 17, 1960) is an American a political commentator, a New York University professor of history and Italian studies, and a scholar on fascism and authoritarian leaders.

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Strong men disappear people, but they also disappear knowledge that conflicts with their ideologies and goals.

Authoritarians always tell you what they're going to do to you... [T]his is part of their politics of threat.

Instead of the obliteration that could come through climate change, you deny it and have a different kind of existential threat... affecting the white male minority, and you harness that rage.

Trump is not fit to serve as leader... of American democracy, but he is... eminently fit to serve as the leader of an authoritarian state.

Trump's repeated elevation of dictators as models of leadership should be understood as part of a re-education strategy: conditioning Americans to see authoritarianism as a superior form of government to democracy.

They strike... the "authoritarian bargain"..: prosperity for... the elites in return for loyalty and toleration of... violence and suspension of rights.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ruth Ben-Ghiat (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.