Good article exploring a new kind of US fascism that now has the White House. The intro:
"Not only a new administration, but a new ideology has now taken up
residence at the White House: neofascism. It resembles in certain ways
the classical fascism of Italy and Germany in the 1920s and ’30s, but
with historically distinct features specific to the political economy
and culture of the United States in the opening decades of the
twenty-first century. This neofascism characterizes, in my assessment,
the president and his closest advisers, and some of the key figures in
his cabinet.2
From a broader sociological perspective, it reflects the electoral
bases, class constituencies and alignments, and racist, xenophobic
nationalism that brought Donald Trump into office. Neofascist discourse
and political practice are now evident every day in virulent attacks on
the racially oppressed, immigrants, women, LBGTQ people,
environmentalists, and workers. These have been accompanied by a
sustained campaign to bring the judiciary, governmental employees, the
military and intelligence agencies, and the press into line with this
new ideology and political reality."
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