Trump Isn’t Our Biggest Problem: It’s the Authoritarian Fascist Movement He’s Launched
Pundits across the American political spectrum are wringing their hands about the fate and future of the “dirty dozen“ Republican senators challenging Biden‘s election.
One of the most widespread stories about their motivation is that they’re “afraid of Trump” or are “worried about being primaried.” Both ideas are wrong.
These people are not taking Trump’s side because they’re afraid. They’re not motivated by what they might lose. Instead, they’re looking to what they might gain in the future.
They’re doing it because Trump has launched an authoritarian fascist movement, with the help and encouragement of a few American and foreign billionaires, and they’re competing with each other to be the next leader or a major player in the senior levels of that movement.
The big mistake so many political observers make is assuming that Trumpism is all about Trump. It’s not. It’s all about a 21st century American version of authoritarian fascism.
There’s always been a strain of authoritarian fascism in American politics, just like in every time of political crisis around the world. Here in the United States it reached a peak in the deep South in 1860, leading to secession and Civil War, and was defeated by…
