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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jan 2021

    The main reason to avoid the fascism analogy is that it obscures the more salient and useful end of Reconstruction analogy and also the genealogy of American reaction from the first KKK to 2nd KKK to Coughlin to McCarthyism & Birchers. It's important to see Trump in USA context

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      2. mariska hargitaylor swift‏ @wspieler 15 Jan 2021
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        American reaction was also fascist

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      3. mariska hargitaylor swift‏ @wspieler 15 Jan 2021
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        simple as

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      1. Kat Godspell (NOW Unplugged)  🏴 🚩 ✊🏿 🆘‏ @KatGodspell 15 Jan 2021
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        So......homegrown fascists. Fascism is fascism wherever it occurs.

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      1. DanaBlankenhorn‏ @danablankenhorn 15 Jan 2021
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        I have been preaching this for years. https://www.danablankenhorn.com/2017/07/the-jim-crow-project-.html … Welcome to the congregation!

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      1. William Earl Burns‏ @williameburns13 15 Jan 2021
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        American exceptionalism lives!

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      2. Stinky Pete‏ @lasagnahog15 15 Jan 2021
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        Is there also value to connecting each of those to the rise of a fascist movement? Also, I'm curious what the analogous history in, say, Germany would be. The "classic" story I've learned only goes back about 15 years pre-Hitler and the Depression -- is there more to the story?

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      2. Osawatamie Anuj Vaidya‏ @asvaidya 15 Jan 2021
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        The Birchers is particularly apt. Bush was able to establish himself as a viable national candidate by defeating this element.

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      1. 15+ min wage and 2K checks 2021!  🗽 🧦‏ @socalmd54 15 Jan 2021
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        It's definitely both. Consider how American slavery and laws to subjugate Black people *inspired* the German Nazis. Our "one drop" law was too extreme for them, so they modified it.

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