Ruth Ben-Ghiat

They sign on very early on and these are called authoritarian bargains.

So the bargain is, the deal, is that they pledge support of the leader and they refuse to criticize him no matter what happens.

And once they sign on, they stick to it for a very long time and they don't,

seem to care what happens to the nation and in return uh the leader gives them goodies um or doesn't go after them so they remain in good standing and so that's very important and then education and in europe where like for example in italy where most of the education system was state controlled it was really easy to take it over

But they think long term authoritarians and they want to indoctrinate new generations.

And so in our country, even during the Biden years and before that, the far right was very active with Turning Point.

That was Charlie Kirk's.

You know, that was all about campuses.

They've had a whole plan for many years and now they're in power.

They can activate it.

So education, the military and and

sometimes they say state security forces.

Because after we see with ICE, that's an example.

It's not only the military, there's like a whole assemblage of other forces.

And ICE acts like a kind of militia or paramilitary.

And then in some states, you also ally, they also ally with gangs.

Like in Venezuela, in Philippines with Duterte, they use these gangs who actually work for the state.

but they're private gangs.

So there's a whole assemblage.

You need all those people.