I suspect that trauma is being a tool of reactionaries to create more reactionaries. Imagine starving and having the media tell you it’s because of X-men (lgbt+, other race, other religion, ect). European elites told their citizens that god was punishing them because the Jews in the 15th(?) century, so the Jews were expelled. Over time the elite began to realize they could escape judgement for poor leadership and remain unquestioned as long as there was an “other” they could blame and punish. The leadership did not wish to be judge, so the leadership found a scapegoat.
During the rise of industrialization through capitalism, they need more scapegoats, so they found more. By indicating to people that wealth and private property were signs of good morals, they were able to claim a moral high ground in the eyes of the traumatized. So by spreading this logic in areas where the population hadn’t yet recovered from a shock, they are able to spread fascism. Lots of countries have dealt with trauma without turning fascist. Trauma can absolutely help create fascists though.
Trauma to create fascism is basally a few steps:
Step 1:
Man made trauma, economic, drug wars, colonization, slavery, cyclical capitalist crisis, war, disease
Step 2:
Blame the poor, or other, and flaunt wealth, so they know that the holder of the wealth is the good guy, not a thief.
Step 3:
Tie aid for recovery to demonstration of fascists ideas so that only fascists can thrive.
I would presume that they are talking about the federal bill Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Shab-eh-nay Band Reservation Settlement Act of 2023 and one in Illinois. If I’m understanding this correctly, after over a 100 years the Potawatomi band right to sovereignty as guaranteed by a 200 year old treaty is being debated in both the US congress and Illinois congress.
Reading in to this makes me want to go to a protest in DeKalb county as according this NBC news
I’d want to tell them “Land back and I’ll go away.”