Fascism is Our New Normal II: Terribly and Terrifyingly Ordinary

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Brad draws on the work of Hannah Arendt to explain how fascism relies on ordinary people operating within a cruel system. He uses two clips - one from Fox News and the other from a right-wing show - to reveal how fascist thought has creeped into our political stream, cultivating ordinary people into a totalitarian mindset. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Subscribe now to American Idols: https://www.axismundi.us/american-idols/ To Donate: venmo - @straightwhitejc Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC SWAJ Book Recommendations - September 2023: https://bookshop.org/lists/swaj-recommends-september-2023/edit Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Music
0:07.0	Axis, Moody.
0:09.0	Music
0:31.0	What's up y'all?
0:32.0	Welcome to Straight White American Jesus.
0:34.0	My name is Pat Onishi, faculty at the University of San Francisco.
0:38.0	Back today, with an episode on fascism as our new normal,
0:43.0	talked about this two weeks ago.
0:45.0	And I want to keep talking about it.
0:47.0	In fact, I'm going to keep talking about it for the next month or more
0:51.0	because I think it's just that important.
0:53.0	So if you're watching on YouTube, you can see that I literally have a baby strap
0:58.0	to my chest.
0:59.0	If you're listening on your podcast feed, you might hear some baby snores or groans
1:03.0	because I have a three week old and that three week old is strap to my chest
1:07.0	and taking a nap.
1:09.0	So there you go.
1:10.0	Let's talk about fascism as our new normal.
1:13.0	One of the things that I just really am scared of, if I'm really honest with you all,
1:19.0	is the fact that over the last three or four years, certainly the Trump era,
1:26.0	but certainly since January 6, I feel like we've seen a normalization of fascist rhetoric.
1:33.0	And I talked about this two weeks ago.
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