This is a very good blog. Imo, seems clear that "fascism" is a useful context for understanding elements of Trump's politics. As John notes tho, crux of the debate is whether Trump is more fascistic than his GOP predecessors by degree or by category, on which I'm agnostichttps://twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1482082553062428675 …
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2) I also think
@CoreyRobin et al's primary concern is with whether we should understand the *most salient* threat facing democratic life in the U.S. as one of extra-political authoritarianism or anti-majoritarian constitutionalism. And I think they're right that it's the latter.8 replies 10 retweets 79 likesShow this thread -
3) I think it's reasonable for partisans of the Robin position on that question to feel that the fascism framework has been grossly overemphasized in mainstream discourse, which arguably casts the Proud Boys as a more salient threat to popular government than the Supreme Court.
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4) So, I think it makes some sense for them to engage the question as a sort of binary one where fascism is either the name of our democracy's most formidable foe, or else an analytical frame that can only ever obscure more than it reveals in the contemporary U.S. context.
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I think they have to be put in relation to one another: the reliance on these counter-majoritarian institutions and the repeated deadlocks can increase the appeal of a kind of "caesarist" intervention and give it also the institutional forms to consolidate power
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i think we should start to look at them as complementary parts of a single crisis
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If only there was a historical framework for seeing divergent tendencies as products of the same crisis and working dialectically together to create a new crisis.
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