yeah, my fully dialectical position is that there is a genuine authoritarian threat (leaving f-word to one side) but that the spectre of that threat is also exploited by centrist elites eager for an ancien regime restoration (something that does nothing to deal with threat).
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Right now? Centrist elites. But their hold on power is shaky -- as I think Trump's presidency and continuing Trumpification of GOP shows.
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In the American system you can be the leader of a minority movement and still have an enormous amount of power (thanks to electoral college, Senate, gerrymandering etc).I don't think revanchist right is so negligible (and as I said centrist hold on power is shaky)
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The American model has never been regimented far right organizations but rather loosely organized violent outside groups enabled by in power elites who whittle away at democracy (as in Reconstruction). I think that's the danger.
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My position from the start has been that Trump doesn't fit European fascist model so well as he does American authoritarian tradition of Reconstruction, 2nd Klan, Father Coughlin, McCarthy, Wallace, etc.
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All historical analogies have their limits. The larger point is there is a robust American tradition of authoritarianism & democratic regression, which Trump clearly falls into.
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