{"id":41310,"date":"2025-05-18T18:48:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T01:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=41310"},"modified":"2025-05-19T11:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T18:49:31","slug":"how-can-we-resist-and-trumps-reality-tv-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/how-can-we-resist-and-trumps-reality-tv-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW WE CAN RESIST TRUMP\u2019S REALITY TV REGIME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Can We Resist and &quot;86&quot; Trump\u2019s Fascist Regime?\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EnGM7EENVhE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@YouTubeWajahatAli\">Wajahat Ali<\/a>&nbsp;\u2022 May 16, 2025 If it talks like a fascist, rules like a fascist, and follows a fascist playbook, then maybe it\u2019s the Trump authoritarian regime that is openly coming after our freedoms, rights, and social services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1591379740i\/53597796.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/932848.Ruth_Ben_Ghiat\">Ruth Ben-Ghiat<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountability while robbing their people of resources and corroding or destroying democracy. Their mutual-admiration club also draws on models from the past. Vladimir Putin rehabilitates Soviet tyrant Joseph Stalin, Donald Trump praises Libyan despot Muammar Gaddafi, Jair Bolsonaro admires Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan invokes Adolf Hitler as the model of an efficient leader.<br><br>Ruth Ben-Ghiat covers a century of authoritarianism to explain why strongman rulers in Africa, Europe, and Latin America, drawing from a common playbook of machismo, propaganda, violence, and corruption, have found popular support even as they bring ruin to their countries. The fruit of decades of research,&nbsp;<em>Strongmen<\/em>&nbsp;gives readers insight into how such rulers think, who and what they depend on, and how they can be opposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the author<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/932848.Ruth_Ben_Ghiat\">Ruth Ben-Ghiat<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ruth Ben-Ghiat<\/strong>&nbsp;is an internationally acclaimed historian, speaker, and political commentator for the&nbsp;<em>Atlantic<\/em>, CNN, the&nbsp;<em>Washington Post<\/em>, and other publications. She is a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University and lives in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wajahat Ali&nbsp;\u2022 May 16, 2025 If it talks like a fascist, rules like a fascist, and follows a fascist playbook, then maybe it\u2019s the Trump authoritarian regime that is openly coming after our freedoms, rights, and social services. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present Ruth Ben-Ghiat Ours is the age of&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/how-can-we-resist-and-trumps-reality-tv-regime\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41319,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41310\/revisions\/41319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}