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In #HowToStopFascism I produced a 21C summary of the fascist thought-architecture... yesterday's @NatConTalk conference ticked a lot of boxes... 1/... 
2/ "It's not racist to oppose mass immigration..." ... "our way of life"..."lower birth rate"... "multiculturalism is recipe for national disaster"..."Cultural Marxism"... they know exactly what they are doing...
3/ It's not fascism, yet. Nor is it actually right-wing populism per se. As I explain in the book, the fascist thought-architecture acts like a magnet on right-wing conservatism, pulling them into its moral/intellectual orbit...
A theory of fascism. Source: How To Stop Fascism (2021) 1/ It's the product of social and ideological disintegration, triggered by a fear of freedom ....
2/ Though fear of freedom is everywhere, it's particularly strong in groups with a material interest in Un freedom ... #HowtoStopFascism
3/ It's not just a capitalist defence mechanism - its function is to reverse historical progress. Today's fascism - primarily ethnonationalist - is far more explicitly anti-modern than before ...
1/ When @SuellaBraverman took office she would be briefed on the fact that one in six terror convicts in the UK is far-right. The core ideology driving them is fear that "invasion" by migrants is a form of "white genocide". Here's Renaud Camus - Great Replacement - 2012...
2/ So "invasion" is not just an over-emotive word, that might trigger the far right. It is a word validating their world-view... that the invasion is being organised by liberals, human rights lawyers, and feminists - and in Suella's case by implication, the Labour Party
3/ For Camus there are three phases: the "collaborators" prepare the way (human rights law); the "invasion" takes place; then the invaders "colonise and replace"... Braverman's thought architecture is close on the first two points...
The US far-right has hailed the Taliban victory. 'They hate what we hate, we can emulate their strategy, they bring closer the global ethnic civil war,' is the sick logic... but the parallels with Saigon are ominous 1/....
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2/ The alt-right/Taliban mutual admiration network exists because both forces are philosophically anti-modern, anti-rational and anti-woman... medium.com/mosquito-ridge…
3/ But as @kathleen_belew points out, the parallels with America's defeat in Saigon are more than symbolic. Her study of the White Power movement in the 80s/90s shows defeat in Vietnam was a major impetus for its radicalisation and militarisation medium.com/mosquito-ridge…
The equation of #BLM with Marxism - let's call it what it is: a fascist trope, drawn logically from the Great Replacement Theory. Marxists support #BLM but so do many social-democrats, liberals and, obviously, football players...
.... when Turning Point and their online grifters amplify the "cultural Marxism" slander, they are proving a key point in #HowToStopFascism... right wing populism has failed as a firewall against fascism: it is being consumed by fascism...
... don't look in the political science textbooks for an explanation of this: look to history. Google D'Annunzio, Hugenberg - populism is anti-theoretical, fascism profoundly theoretical.... the theory fills the void in the heads of boneheads, misogynists and racists...
