Comment 14:
"The main difference between the Nazis and the Tea Party is the Tea Party doesn’t advocate intimidation or violence. That’s the difference. If they did they would resemble the Nazis (or labor movements) a bit more."
I would say that this is the kind of view which a so-called 'party sympathizer', or lower level party member, would naturally, and even rather naively, take;
whereas the actual views or political goals of the leadership of protototalitarian party, if it has aspirations to ultimate power of a powerful state,
are quite other than those promulgated to or from sympathizers. Low level grass roots governance is not what this movement will be about, once securely in power.
The 'buffering' process among party organization levels works in both directions, as Arendt describes.
Analogies, as well as differences, can be drawn, to the account in Hannah Arendt, The Origins Of Totalitarianism, chapter The Totalitarian Movement, subchapter ii. Totalitarian Organization.
This sort of fills in the blank, left by comment 14, on DK's current post.
Wish that weren't the way things have been shaping up.
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