It just makes more sense and seems less online than vidya games, also that was the year I started avoiding comment sections cause of all the racism
It just makes more sense and seems less online than vidya games, also that was the year I started avoiding comment sections cause of all the racism
Yes, that's definitely true, but American fascism has always had distinct "flavors" some more noxious than others, like I remember the bigotry of the post-911/Iraq War era even as a kid, and saw how that morphed into the new Tea Party flavor after 2008
2001-2008, 2009-2011, 2012-2015, and 2016-present seems to me like a reasonable breakdown of the majors trends in American fascism, each one triggered by new events that pierced the cultural membrane
Even "white power" was a slogan adopted as a reactionary response to black power movements beginning in the 60s. That and white Christian nationalism are the earliest origins of the modern organized militant racist movements we see now. Seriously though check out that book, I've done a lot of reading on this specific topic trying to understand how we got where we are (and how one of my friends became a Nazi) and while I knew a lot of the broad strokes Belew is very thorough and it includes a lot of details I had not found elsewhere.