In Our Readers’ Views, Marjorie Casswell warns of the oppressive future our country faces if the ultra right wing manages to take over (“Fascism is threat in U.S.,” Feb. 24). That Trumpist base may think they will be a privileged class. They need to think again.
People in Trump’s base are only tools for those who would hold the real power. Dictatorial authority would be wielded by a select few, and once they control the levers of government, they will crush the unsuspecting loyal base the hardest. As Ms. Casswell says of authoritarians, “They oppress opposition, demand absolute obedience.”
In the classic George Orwell book “1984” and films of the same title, we are warned of an authoritarian world under the cult of a godlike Big Brother. There, supposedly privileged class members are targeted for surveillance and cruelly punished for even unwitting behavioral breaches. That’s what awaits those who hunger for Trumpism. They won’t know what hit them.
