"Mad" Miles
11-01-2010, 10:49 AM
My thanks to Mary Moore for forwarding the following to [email protected]
Blog for Our Future (https://www.ourfuture.org/) / By Sara Robinson (https://www.alternet.org/authors/8994/)
Fascist America: Is This Election the Next Turn?
It's not fascism yet; but if the Tea Party manages to get its hands on the levers of power, it will be.
October 22, 2010 |
In August 2009, I wrote a piece titled Fascist America: Are We There Yet? (https://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009083205/fascist-america-are-we-there-yet) that sparked much discussion on both the left and right ends of the blogosphere. In it, I argued that -- according to the best scholarship on how fascist regimes emerge -- America was on a path that was running much too close to the fail-safe point beyond which no previous democracy has ever been able to turn back from a full-on fascist state. I also noted that the then-emerging Tea Party had a lot of proto-fascist hallmarks, and that it had the potential to become a clear and present danger to the future of our democracy if it ever got enough traction to start winning elections in a big way.
On the first anniversary of that article, Jonah Goldberg -- the right's revisionist-in-chief on the subject of fascism -- actually used an entire National Review column to taunt me about what he characterized as a failure of prediction. Where's that fascist state you promised? he hooted.
(Snip)
For the entire article:
https://www.alternet.org/story/148588/fascist_america%3A_is_this_election_the_next_turn/
Blog for Our Future (https://www.ourfuture.org/) / By Sara Robinson (https://www.alternet.org/authors/8994/)
Fascist America: Is This Election the Next Turn?
It's not fascism yet; but if the Tea Party manages to get its hands on the levers of power, it will be.
October 22, 2010 |
In August 2009, I wrote a piece titled Fascist America: Are We There Yet? (https://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009083205/fascist-america-are-we-there-yet) that sparked much discussion on both the left and right ends of the blogosphere. In it, I argued that -- according to the best scholarship on how fascist regimes emerge -- America was on a path that was running much too close to the fail-safe point beyond which no previous democracy has ever been able to turn back from a full-on fascist state. I also noted that the then-emerging Tea Party had a lot of proto-fascist hallmarks, and that it had the potential to become a clear and present danger to the future of our democracy if it ever got enough traction to start winning elections in a big way.
On the first anniversary of that article, Jonah Goldberg -- the right's revisionist-in-chief on the subject of fascism -- actually used an entire National Review column to taunt me about what he characterized as a failure of prediction. Where's that fascist state you promised? he hooted.
(Snip)
For the entire article:
https://www.alternet.org/story/148588/fascist_america%3A_is_this_election_the_next_turn/