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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You can walk and chew gum at the same time. You can say what Trump and the Republicans are doing are echoes of Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow segregation that emerged from it was the model for Nazi and Italian fascism that is now being modeled by White Supremacists today.
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Basically, you can make Reconstruction less obscure and at the same time, remind folks that fascism is a component of White Supremacy because they are all tied together. The question is do you want to do the work to make those ties. Black people do it all the time.
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There are a number of important educational projects here: people also need to understand how the Reconstruction ended to see the link to 1/6 insurrection. They also need to understand that racism -- and not just anti-Semitism -- was at the core of fascism. 1/
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My issue with the refusal of the 'fascism' word is that it rests on two foundations: the first, a denial of how authoritarian Trumpism is, how serious a threat it is, which has been a continuing theme of insistence of
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