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Social identity is a helluva drug (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

It's the same playbook as foreign sanctions elsewhere.

The Assads, Kims, and Putins of the world can get their people to rally into a "bunker mentality" which helps prop up their regimes as a grand and noble struggle.

Trump has brought the same energy home. And history shows you can milk it for decades or generations even before something essential craxks.