Taxonomies are fascinating for what they reveal about the taxonomist: Beck dislikes both National Socialism and Communism, so he puts them together in one category. It makes sense!
Exaggeration of differences between Self and Other and ratcheting up the fear of Other not only makes for more dramatic (and therefore more entertaining) radio programs, it also, within the context of the narrative that's created, makes the talk show host and those who identify with him feel extra heroic by virtue of the demons they suppose are arrayed against them. (I see the same thing in the other direction too: people will describe some new right-wing abridgment of their liberties in the most dire terms in order, I'd say, to whip of fear and a sense of being desperate heros.
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Exaggeration of differences between Self and Other and ratcheting up the fear of Other not only makes for more dramatic (and therefore more entertaining) radio programs, it also, within the context of the narrative that's created, makes the talk show host and those who identify with him feel extra heroic by virtue of the demons they suppose are arrayed against them. (I see the same thing in the other direction too: people will describe some new right-wing abridgment of their liberties in the most dire terms in order, I'd say, to whip of fear and a sense of being desperate heros.