1/ How can we fight a political enemy for which we don't even have a name? And yet that's what we are trying to do. We talk about Trump, Johnson, Farage, Putin, Elliott, Cummings, Fascists, Racists, Murdoch, Koch etc. And each time we pick out just one part of our adversary.
2/ The force attacking democracy is a loose alliance of Kleptocratic billionaires who see democracy as a parasite and their political and media hangers-on, Putin who sees it as a threat, and fascists, racists and bigots who crave the power to freely unleash their hate.
3/ So what we have is not just the kleptocratic super-rich or Putin or the fascists and racists, but all three working together to destroy democracy. We need a name for that alliance. I say we should call it kleptofascism. The name isn't perfect but it links the main elements.
4/ Without a name to describe our adversary we are all but powerless. We are futilely lashing out at bits of the monster, while being blindly unaware of the whole. For lack of a better name that monster is kleptofascism.
