Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
THE UNITED STATES is dancing dangerously close to fascism’s trip wire. One false move or fateful push from the Trump personality cult could inflict irreparable damage to its already fragile democracy. Since January 6, 2021, mainstream reporters and commentators have finally started addressing this danger with appropriate urgency. The typically tepid New York Times and Washington Post have run several stories on the republic’s potential transformation into an autocratic state. Academics openly discuss the possibility of “civil war,” and a few pundits, such as Guardian columnist Robert Reich and Joy Reid, host of her own nightly MSNBC talk show, have actually uttered the f-word — fascism.
Early in their books, Street and DiMaggio provide lengthy summaries of the key traits of fascist movements. DiMaggio reviews the leading literature on fascism, from scholars like Roger Griffin and Robert Paxton, philosophers like the aforementioned Stanley and Theodor Adorno, and journalists like David Neiwert, and divides the critical characteristics of fascist politics into the following subsections: “White Supremacy and Ultra-Nationalism,” “Militarism and Empire,” “Mass Hysteria and the Cult of the Patriarchal Personality,” “Eliminationism and One-Party Rule,” “Corporatism, Anti-Communism, and the Political Dictatorship of the State,” “Social Darwinism,” and “Paramilitarism and the Mobilization of Mass Violence.”
It requires only an honest review of the public record to confirm DiMaggio’s conclusion:
Trump’s politics should be classified as neofascistic, meeting to various degrees six of the seven prerequisites of fascism while recognizing that contemporary America is not simply a retread of fascist Italy or Germany. The paramilitarism and eliminationist politics observed during the Trump years were not comparable in scope to the one-party dictatorships existing in Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy. Still, to ignore the dangers inherent in the rising neofascistic movement on the American right during the Trump years (and beyond), and the ways that it has manifested itself in American politics, is to court disaster.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article...-happened-here-and-rising-fascism-in-america/
Early in their books, Street and DiMaggio provide lengthy summaries of the key traits of fascist movements. DiMaggio reviews the leading literature on fascism, from scholars like Roger Griffin and Robert Paxton, philosophers like the aforementioned Stanley and Theodor Adorno, and journalists like David Neiwert, and divides the critical characteristics of fascist politics into the following subsections: “White Supremacy and Ultra-Nationalism,” “Militarism and Empire,” “Mass Hysteria and the Cult of the Patriarchal Personality,” “Eliminationism and One-Party Rule,” “Corporatism, Anti-Communism, and the Political Dictatorship of the State,” “Social Darwinism,” and “Paramilitarism and the Mobilization of Mass Violence.”
It requires only an honest review of the public record to confirm DiMaggio’s conclusion:
Trump’s politics should be classified as neofascistic, meeting to various degrees six of the seven prerequisites of fascism while recognizing that contemporary America is not simply a retread of fascist Italy or Germany. The paramilitarism and eliminationist politics observed during the Trump years were not comparable in scope to the one-party dictatorships existing in Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy. Still, to ignore the dangers inherent in the rising neofascistic movement on the American right during the Trump years (and beyond), and the ways that it has manifested itself in American politics, is to court disaster.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article...-happened-here-and-rising-fascism-in-america/
She may think he’s too dumb to be a fascist. But then she hasn’t had a close look at his cultists. Duces don’t have to be very smart, just not as dumb as most of their followers.