You can apply the schema to Obama as heralding the rise of multi-racial democracy, a kind of centrist Leon Blum
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@EricLevitz explained, militarization is just one of the many causal factors that can lead to a 'fascism' - without those other preconditions the end result is at best a hybrid.
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American society is very violent, but it's still a long ways off from Gallipoli or the Somme. From American cops, you get not blackshirts, but FTX weekends, which can of course themselves lead to the Whitmer kidnapping plot or even Oklahoma City.
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every society has a certain number of people with the right dispositions. the question is how many. some cops do, sure - not the parking cops or desk jockeys. so how many is that? my wikipedia-ing tells me that relative to population,
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just the number of germans actually wounded in combat was 30 times the *total* number of cops in the US, including the parking cops.
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