Just spoke to my mom who is a centrist liberal and never talks to me about politics. she said “I don’t think I’m going to be voting. I feel sick to my stomach about both these two.”
Two of the easiest elections in the history of this country and the dems just blew em both.
My point is that the fascist paries of the past only incorporated Socialist-style policies because of the existence of Communist parties, the USSR, and more militant workers in general.
Under the current conditions, there's no reason for a fascist party to incorporate Socialist policies. They don't win any support that way. Why on Earth would Trump's successor run on Medicare for All? Would you vote for a fascist who promised M4A? Would anyone you know? No, so why would they ever piss off their business owning base?
Again, to reiterate, this is WHY the coming fascists will not run on M4A or any other socialist policy.
They've already started the class war and inequality talk. The way that this gets framed in 2020 is by talking about how China and immigrants "take jobs" and "take industry". The implication is that Americans will get healthcare and comfortable lives if the WORK for it. There's going to never be a fascist who campaigns on "free stuff" like M4A.
Unless there's a competing left-wing alternative, fascists have no reason to promote genuinely populist programs. This is the same reason why Trump never mentioned "Trump care" or legal weed, or any other Leftie fantasy. He doesn't gain any votes by offering those things