Ron DeSantis 'Will Destroy Our Democracy,' Says Fascism Expert
By
Ewan Palmer On 2/27/23 at 8:27 AM EST
DeSantis is a scary scary man. He really does remind me of Mussolini in many ways. He hates opposing opinions.
This Ruth Ben-Ghiat is obviously a liberal Democrat, so I would garner she knows a lot about being a fascist. A professor watchlist shows that she "frequently criticizes conservatives, characterizing them as violent and an outright threat to democracy. She additionally alleges that supporters of the second-amendment birthed a culture that directly resulted in the January 6th “insurrection.”
In an article for
CNN—titled, “Parental control is a smokescreen tactic for right-wing activists”—Dr. Ben-Ghiat
denounces parents who object to COVID-19 restrictions in schools.
Dr. Ben-Ghiat describes these parents as elements of the “authoritarian culture” that is eroding democracy. She specifically cites their opposition to mandatory masking and vaccination of children, alleging it stems from a “Q-Anon” belief.
She states that “anti-vaccine militants” and “white-christian evangelicals” are using “parental rights” as a smokescreen to abolish private education. She decries parents allegedly “censoring” books that would teach children about the “centrality of racism and slavery” to this country’s founding. She further criticizes calls for parental control in education, describing it as the installation of “authoritarian culture” in towns and local school boards.
In a separate article for the
Washington Post—titled,”
America’s Gun Culture is Priming Us for Authoritarianism,”—Dr. Ben-Ghiat alleges the Capitol Riots are the inevitable result of an armed citizenry.
She is referring to the incident surrounding January 6, 2021 at the Capital
in which a number of protestors breached the Capitol’s Doors during certification of the 2020 Presidential Election, some violently so. Despite claims to the contrary, even the FBI has determined that
no evidence exists that any rioters coordinated to commit an “insurrection.”
Dr. Ben-Ghiat alleges that general access to lethal weapons enables “mass death” and a “democratic decline” in America. She bizarrely connects the January 6th “insurrection” to civilian ownership of firearms, alleging the later enables “mass death” and desensitizes others to human life.
Dr. Ben-Ghiat further alleges that gun owners are willing to harm others in exchange for their freedoms, alleging that no loss of life seems to deter them:
She then connects gun ownership to a rise of fascism in America, alleging that dictators controlled masses through a climate of fear and mass death. She states that gun owners are using this same formula to encourage “fundamentalist and cult ideologies”:
Ruth Ben-Ghiat - Professor Watchlist
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