Full-Blown Fascism: Is America Teetering on the Brink?
You can only see fascism in the rear-view mirror and then it’s too late…
History shows that most democratic nations don’t realize how serious their fascism problem is until it overtakes them altogether. We saw it in the 1930s in Italy, Germany, Spain and Japan; today it’s happened in Hungary, Turkey, Egypt, Russia, The Philippines and Brazil, and is well underway in Poland, India and multiple smaller countries.
Here in America, the GOP today has a serious fascism problem, and it’s endangering all of us. It’s closer than most of us realize.
Fascism isn’t just about the merger of oligarch and state interests; it also requires a repudiation of the rule of law and the institutions of democracy itself.
This is exactly what is happening deep within the Republican Party at this very moment. Trumpism was always about fascism.
Former Virginia Republican Congressman Denver Riggleman was on CNN the morning of February 15th, saying that every single day he’s receiving private messages on Facebook with new Trump-supporting conspiracy theories.
Republicans who voted to impeach and convict Donald Trump are finding their local and state parties repudiating them, fueled by the rage of people…
