The statements from Trump's biggest backer are stunningly contrary to the former president's sunnier description of American life under a second Trump presidency.
Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people ‘I offer you a good time,’ Hitler has said to them ‘I offer you struggle, danger and death,’ and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet. Perhaps later on they will get sick of it and change their minds, as at the end of the last war. After a few years of slaughter and starvation ‘Greatest happiness of the greatest number’ is a good slogan, but at this moment ‘Better an end with horror than a horror without end’ is a winner. Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to underrate its emotional appeal.
After a few years of slaughter and starvation ‘Greatest happiness of the greatest number’ is a good slogan, but at this moment ‘Better an end with horror than a horror without end’ is a winner. Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to underrate its emotional appeal.
From George Orwell’s 1940 review of Mein Kampf.
https://bookmarks.reviews/george-orwells-1940-review-of-mein-kampf/
Goddamn.
Orwell goes hard. It’s unfortunate that he’s known for two books that people pretend they read in high school because their English teacher made them.