The US is has laid down the infrastructure for modern fascist controls since 9/11’s Patriot Act
Even that was more a modernization and overhaul of the War on Drugs. And the drug war was a rebranding of Jim Crow. Which was a way to retrofit state law to reimplement slavery. Etc. Etc.
Certain cities and states wax and wane as opportunity and financing permit. But this tends to follow economic allowances as much as anything. Consider the UK police state, which is crumbling in no small part because the country is going broke.
the state used to keep the liberal pretense of political rights intact, and now the state is becoming more brazen and dangerous in exercising power and demonstrating political and legal impotence of the public
In a way, it never really mattered. Just as colonialists found ways of justifying killing, raping, enslaving, and stealing in the name of Christ centuries ago, the American state will find ways of justifying doing fascism in the name of freedom and democracy.
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Even that was more a modernization and overhaul of the War on Drugs. And the drug war was a rebranding of Jim Crow. Which was a way to retrofit state law to reimplement slavery. Etc. Etc.
Certain cities and states wax and wane as opportunity and financing permit. But this tends to follow economic allowances as much as anything. Consider the UK police state, which is crumbling in no small part because the country is going broke.
In a way, it never really mattered. Just as colonialists found ways of justifying killing, raping, enslaving, and stealing in the name of Christ centuries ago, the American state will find ways of justifying doing fascism in the name of freedom and democracy.