Totalitarian leaders promised stability while engineering permanent instability.

Evidence

The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 895

Categorization

• XREF: This is a key mechanism for the toolkit — the deliberate inversion of stated political promise versus actual design. Relevant to how Islamophobia-adjacent regimes discursively promise order while engineering precarity. — connects to: Designated-states endure permanent instability until accepting neoliberal terms. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1812