Please expand on fascism internal to America. I’m curious are you following down the path of corporate media - White supremacy and trumpistas? Or are you with the substack authors I read saying that fascism in the guise of corporate media and what CJ Hopkins calls Globocap.
I think you can make a case for all the parties you mention, but to me the fascism that is of most immediate concern is best characterized by January 6th. Since then, we are witnessing the entire Republican party moving down a well-worn path led by Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, and most-recently, Trump. If you read R.O. Paxton's book "The Anatomy of Fascism" [free to download if you hunt], you cannot help but see modern consistency with past movements. Back in 2019, I ask Paxton if he thought Trump was a fascist and to my surprise, he said no. However, after January 6th, he did a 180 and even wrote an OpEd in Newsweek about his change of heart.
An essay just out by Joe Fronczak in the Journal of American History entitled "The Fascist Game: Transnational Political Transmission and the Genesis of the U.S. Modern Right" One sees increasing concern over rising fascism in the USA. Joe's article is particularly interesting in my mind because he shows a common thread linking all prior fascist movements that I had underappreciated - they are all anti-labor (right or left) - or as the US white supremacist militia types like to call labor - comm'nists [sic].
That’s said I do not particularly agree with you, I think trumps incompetence and ignorance manifests with fascist jargon but I think it’s kind of shallow. The main stream media as spokes people for the global elites are more worrisome to me, I believe they have the chops.
Please expand on fascism internal to America. I’m curious are you following down the path of corporate media - White supremacy and trumpistas? Or are you with the substack authors I read saying that fascism in the guise of corporate media and what CJ Hopkins calls Globocap.
I think you can make a case for all the parties you mention, but to me the fascism that is of most immediate concern is best characterized by January 6th. Since then, we are witnessing the entire Republican party moving down a well-worn path led by Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, and most-recently, Trump. If you read R.O. Paxton's book "The Anatomy of Fascism" [free to download if you hunt], you cannot help but see modern consistency with past movements. Back in 2019, I ask Paxton if he thought Trump was a fascist and to my surprise, he said no. However, after January 6th, he did a 180 and even wrote an OpEd in Newsweek about his change of heart.
An essay just out by Joe Fronczak in the Journal of American History entitled "The Fascist Game: Transnational Political Transmission and the Genesis of the U.S. Modern Right" One sees increasing concern over rising fascism in the USA. Joe's article is particularly interesting in my mind because he shows a common thread linking all prior fascist movements that I had underappreciated - they are all anti-labor (right or left) - or as the US white supremacist militia types like to call labor - comm'nists [sic].
OK thanks for that. I will think about it.
That’s said I do not particularly agree with you, I think trumps incompetence and ignorance manifests with fascist jargon but I think it’s kind of shallow. The main stream media as spokes people for the global elites are more worrisome to me, I believe they have the chops.