Fascism and Bad Faith

Violence has and always will be a central part of any successful fascist movement, largely because intimidation is necessary when such a small portion of the population supports your hideous policy goals, as much as those exist in a fascist movement.

This is the second in a series analyzing The Anatomy of Fascism. Click here to read Part One. Our sixth grade class election was a bitter affair. It pitted a bookish girl named Beth against my buddy Kevin, a jovial, popular class clown who surprised us all when he answered

I’m halfway through Robert O. Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism and I take no pleasure in reporting the United States is checking a lot of fascist boxes.  Too many. Way too many.  Sometimes I find myself squirming in my seat as I read the timely tome, hoping – praying

The funniest part of Tucker Carlson going all the way to Russia to visit a grocery store is that he’s definitely never shopped at an American grocery store.  The living embodiment of the country club Republican – the heir of William Buckley’s New England-style fascism, so prim and proper

Social media, once you’ve breached a certain follower threshold, is like a nonstop party begging for your attendance.  For some folks, that threshold is a few thousands followers. For others, it’s tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands. I don’t say any of this to garner

It was all so absurd and unbelievable from the start. Conservatives across the US have used social media over the past month to weave a conspiracy in which a fascist film known as Sound of Freedom was being censored and undermined by shadowy forces. We were to believe that wage