Paranoia Is Winning How Elon Musk’s conspiracy theories became official White House policy

"The Republican establishment may now be calculating that the smart move is to go along with Trump’s and Musk’s delusions. But the paranoid demagogues they think they can control are usually controlling them."

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Vor einhundert Jahren starb der britische Philosoph John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart.

Heute vor achtzig Jahren verstarb der schwedische Ökonom Gustav Cassel. Hier ein Zitat aus seinen "Fundamental Thoughts on Economics" (1925):

Lionel Robbins: An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science (1932)

Bannon v. Musk = authoritarian (or, let’s be honest, neofascist) populists vs. the authoritarian (neofascist) plutocrats.

I’m sure historians of authoritarianism are very familiar with these kinds of internal splits in anti-liberal movements. Not sure they always result in weakening them, though.

Otto Strasser came back to Germany in the late Fourties, trying to start a neofacist movement.

He reminds me a lot of Steve Bannon.

That's what I thought, too. Remember the social demagogues Otto and Gregor Strasser, for instance, who were very important during the rise of the NSDAP.

Hitler got rid of them after he came to power: Gregor Strasser was murdered by SS in 1934, Otto Strasser went into exile.

Me, too.

Wenn Rechtsradikale Rechtsradikale kritisieren... Bin ich der einzige, den Steve Bannon an die Strassers erinnert?

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Great essay, thanks!

The New Rasputins Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.

"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."

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Heute vor achtzig Jahren verstarb der von den Nationalsozialisten verfolgte Schriftsteller Rudolf Borchardt (1877 - 1945).