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    Yes, It’s Fascism – Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny


    Yes, It’s Fascism – Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny

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    2. slakmehl on

      [Internet Archive Link](https://archive.is/Maalh)

      Submission Statement: The Atlantic is one of America’s oldest liberal publications. Author Jonathan Rauch asserts that the Trump administration *”drifted distinctly toward doctrinal and operational fascism”*. Article is broken into the following categories of argument:

      * Demolition of norms
      * Glorification of Violence
      * Might is right
      * Politicized law enforcement
      * Dehumanization
      * Police-state tactics
      * Undermining elections
      * What’s private is public
      * Attacks on news media
      * Territorial and military aggression
      * Transnational reach
      * Blood-and-soil nationalism
      * White and Christian nationalism
      * Mobs and street thugs
      * Leader aggrandizement
      * Alternative facts
      * Politics as war
      * Governing as revolution

    4. Maximilianne on

      may the lord give me strength to be an optimist to interpret “recently” as like since 2016

    5. spoirs on

      Inconvenient truth for contrarians on the left who daily need to signal their distance (vertical, natch) from Evelyn Normielib.

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