Sorry but isn't the debate over whether or not the US is "fascist" a dead end? Like the Nazis weren't completely defeated, they were absorbed. Fascism is smaller than what is going on here. Fascism is the dog at the end of the chain, but someone is holding the other end.

Sorry I'm not directing this at you, just this endless debate that always ends in a critical analysis of Umberto Eco, and none being any better for it.

Yeah, we aren’t quite at the “roving groups of brown shirts doing open pogroms and putting political enemies in concentration camps” stage yet, except maybe in small areas for short periods of time.

Shit is bad, but it’s going to get much much worse

Coat of paint is going to flake off.