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“…the ‘innocence lost’ narrative is inherently about the proclamation of victimhood… when the dominant group in a social order proclaims itself aggrieved, insists that it is the marginalized faction, and yet still has its relative power, its guns, its bombs, its police forces, its military, its majority status (in numbers and certainly in influence), that sense of grievance becomes more than mere annoyance. It becomes deadly. The backlash engendered by that sense of victimhood, linked with firepower and the strength of the state apparatus becomes a potential source of real fascism, properly defined and historically conceptualized. It is always the notion of national decline and the need for rebirth that lay at the root of fascism… And it is precisely that, the fascist impulse, which Glenn Beck—a self-proclaimed rodeo clown, who yet commands the respect of millions—is daily nurturing”
The Avatar of Amnesia: Glenn Beck, Historical Memory and the Evil of Right-Wing Populism | Red Room
