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These proto-fascists operate in a toxic mix of fear and self-righteousness, and have highly compartmentalized brains, so they are able to spurn science like the belief in evolution or global climate disruption and cherry pick their beliefs based on the half-baked nonsense their leaders tell them.
Stephen Hren: Lesson From Iraq: Bring Back the Draft! Stephen Hren 2011
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These proto-fascists operate in a toxic mix of fear and self-righteousness, and have highly compartmentalized brains, so they are able to spurn science like the belief in evolution or global climate disruption and cherry pick their beliefs based on the half-baked nonsense their leaders tell them.
Stephen Hren: Lesson From Iraq: Bring Back the Draft! Stephen Hren 2011
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And positing the view that economic hardship will cause all "working class" people to become "proto-fascists" sounds completely loony bin.
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What transformed them from beloved playground proto-fascists into talk-radio's pariah du jour?
Ned Goldreyer: Who Speaks for the Victimizers? Ned Goldreyer 2010
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Yet as they patronize aspirant-insurgents as quirky marginal complainers, the truth is that many Americans -- Progressives as well as proto-fascists -- are emotionally close to overthrowing their lofty establishment.
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Yet as they patronize aspirant-insurgents as quirky marginal complainers, the truth is that many Americans -- Progressives as well as proto-fascists -- are emotionally close to overthrowing their lofty establishment.
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Yet as they patronize aspirant-insurgents as quirky marginal complainers, the truth is that many Americans -- Progressives as well as proto-fascists -- are emotionally close to overthrowing their lofty establishment.
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Isn't the goal of proto-fascists such as yourself to have two fundamentally interchangeable candidates, thus insuring stability for all (for all who count, anyway)?
Clinton Camp: Obama Shouldn't Get Away With Writing Off West Virginia Loss 2009
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If we do not tap into the justifiable anger sweeping across the nation, if we do not militantly push back against corporate fraud and imperial wars that we cannot win or afford, the political vacuum we have created will be filled with right-wing lunatics and proto-fascists.
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The racist tirades of Jewish proto-fascists like Meir Kahane stood outside the law, were vigorously condemned by most Israelis and were prosecuted accordingly.
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