Academically, I think its worth noting the real difference between Mitt Romney Liberalism and Ron DeSantis / Greg Abbott style white nationalism. The Bush/Cheney regime was regularly compared to Nazism, but it was not meaningfully distinct from the Clinton/Obama periods that surrounded it.
At some point, I guess you can just throw up your hands and proclaim everything Americans have done has been a shambling beast of white nationalist consumption and degradation. But that almost feels like fed-jacketing the plurality of the general public. You're just kinda ceding that there's something inherently anti-social about the entire West, rather than identifying the material drivers for these philosophies and patterns of behavior.
Academically, I think its worth noting the real difference between Mitt Romney Liberalism and Ron DeSantis / Greg Abbott style white nationalism. The Bush/Cheney regime was regularly compared to Nazism, but it was not meaningfully distinct from the Clinton/Obama periods that surrounded it.
At some point, I guess you can just throw up your hands and proclaim everything Americans have done has been a shambling beast of white nationalist consumption and degradation. But that almost feels like fed-jacketing the plurality of the general public. You're just kinda ceding that there's something inherently anti-social about the entire West, rather than identifying the material drivers for these philosophies and patterns of behavior.
I don't think it's throwing your hand up so much as it is pointing and shrieking like Donald Sutherland.
Nearly all Americans have either hooted and cheered as our nation slaughtered millions or were forced to live with it complacent or under duress.