They are so familiar with these tactics because these are their tactics. What’s the phrase about taking one to know one? Except… they’re just diluting the sense of truth in our society, because nothing they say is actually defensible.

In this case he just may be stupid and not get how its the same.

There needs to be a word for that!

Hey, life in daycare is like a 70s American prison movie. Toddlers can be serious thugs.

Fascists revel in hypocrisy because it’s a clear, boastful statement of power. The Party gets to be criminal abusers, while the Opposition doesn’t get to exist. Protects but doesn’t bind and all that.

He is aware.