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“Fascist politics invokes a pure mythic past tragically destroyed. Depending on how the nation is defined, the mythic past may be religiously pure, racially pure, culturally pure, or all of the above.”
― Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

“Pratap Mehta wrote: The targeting of enemies—minorities, liberals, secularists, leftists, urban naxals, intellectuals, assorted protestors—is not driven by a calculus of ordinary politics….When you legitimize yourself entirely by inventing enemies, the truth ceases to matter, normal restraints of civilization and decency cease to matter, the checks and balances of normal politics cease to matter.*2”
― Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

“Fascist politics can dehumanize minority groups even when an explicitly fascist state does not arise.”
― Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

“Economics is too important to be left to economists.”
― Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems