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The Fascism Leader Has to Be Excessive

"I think nostalgia is always about something you never really had," he says. "And then the, the project of the right is to reclaim it and we can and it will be fine." The fascist leader has to be excessive because what they're trying to wipe out is itself an excess,. Like it's the Jewish excess. They're going to try to wipe out. So Hitler's, his very excessiveness is needed.

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