{"id":803292,"date":"2022-09-19T06:30:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T06:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=255334"},"modified":"2022-09-19T06:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T06:30:49","slug":"erasing-qanon-fascism-a-case-study-in-black-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/19\/erasing-qanon-fascism-a-case-study-in-black-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasing QAnon Fascism: A Case Study in Black Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Marx famously wrote in the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte that historical facts appear twice, \u201cthe first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.\u201d Following this observation, journalists\u2019 longstanding denial of the fascist implications of Trump\u2019s ties to QAnon long ago ventured into black comedy. President Biden recently referred to Trumpism \u2013 of which QAnon is a big part \u2013 as \u201csemi-fascism.\u201d He described Trump during the 2020 election season as \u201csort of like Goebbels.\u201d This was in reference to the Big Lie propaganda that Trump popularized during the election, and which was used to stoke fascist violence on January 6. As Goebbels and Hitler infamously recognized regarding the Big Lie, if you say it enough, people will believe it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/19\/erasing-qanon-fascism-a-case-study-in-black-comedy\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/19\/erasing-qanon-fascism-a-case-study-in-black-comedy\/\">Erasing QAnon Fascism: A Case Study in Black Comedy<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Marx famously wrote in the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte that historical facts appear twice, \u201cthe first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.\u201d Following this observation, journalists\u2019 longstanding denial of the fascist implications o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803430,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803292\/revisions\/803430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}