Hey everybody, I'm Aaron Jell-A-Bolo and I'm the host of Because We Love Making Movies.

It's my podcast where I sit down with artists behind films like Nope, Elvis, and Barbarian.

I created this podcast because I wanted to celebrate the purest joy of filmmaking, which

is collaborating with a group of artists who become my family.

So if you want to listen to great conversations with the artists behind the magic of movies,

check it out.

This season we'll be further exploring each topic, hanging out with experts and enthusiasts

of all kinds, for more strange stories, social commentary, and the myths that make America

tick.

I'm your host, Chelsea Weber-Smith.

Today we're talking to Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale University in the

author of The New York Times' best-selling book How Fascism Works.

Patriarchal masculinity sets up men with the expectation that society will allow them

the role of sole protectors and providers of their families.

In times of extreme economic anxiety, men already made anxious by a perceived loss of status

resulting from increasing gender equality can easily be thrust into panic by demagoguery

directed against minorities.

Here fascist politics intentionally distorts the source of anxiety.

A fascist politician has no intention of addressing the root causes of economic hardship.

Fascist politics distorts male anxiety, heightened by economic anxiety, and to fear that one's

family is under existential threat from those who reject its structure and traditions.

Thank you so much, Jason, for coming on the show.

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