1. Maus. Whoopi Goldberg. Swastikas (some ironic, some not) at the so-called Truckers Convoy in Ottawa. Lots of fascist discourse going around but much of it shows a decreasing awareness of what fascism actually was.
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3. "Fascism" isn't just any bad form of politics or even authoritarianism: it's the politics that emerges in liberal democracies that are gridlocked, which opens up a path for strongman leader whose path to power comes from fusing conservative elite & roughneck street fighters.
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4. John has a very fruitful way of thinking about fascism as a process & the way it parallels (or sometimes doesn't parallel) contemporary anti-systems right. It's a very fair minded argument, charitable to critics. I had a very fruitful talk with him.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/fascism-as-metaphor-and-fact?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …
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