“The walk-back is just politics.”-Ruth Ben-Ghiat
As part of my ongoing ‘fight-fascism toolkit’ series, I mined the wisdom of America’s foremost scholar on Italian fascism, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, on how to explain Ron DeSantis’ fluency in doublespeak.
What follows is her insightful explanation of the ‘walk-back.’
‘Territorial Dispute’
To set the stage, understand t…