Thread by @BLMChi

This is an important point and also consistent with how fascism historically has arisen. It is always supported first by the ruling classes, despite classist stereotypes. That is because fascism rises out of the crisis of capitalism - it is a response and attempt at reconfiguring

https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1347806255964975107

U.S. empire is in crisis. We can see this crisis developing in acute consistency throughout the last 10+ years, from the global economic crash, to global insurrection against police killings, to the failure of US capitalism to forge a response to COVID, to resulting unemployment

Demands from the ground have been to address the visible fissures in US capitalism: universal healthcare, employment programs, defunding police, releasing incarcerated peoples, ending cages of children, ending wars about control of oil, ending pipelines through indigenous lands +

The ruling parties, the reps of the ruling classes, are in crisis because of this producing a growing fascist movement to use brute force, torture, terror, death, to forge a new social contract. That is why the stereotypes of Trump’s supporters being mostly poor is inaccurate.

It doesn’t serve us to fall into classist tropes. That lends itself toward reifying the larger goal of the US racial project, which has been used to protect US capitalism and foster its imperial projects abroad. Fascism is always populist and led by sections of the bourgeoisie.

The fact that those ID’d as participants in the attempted coup are CEO’s, children of Supreme Court judges, traveled by private planes, former military, and cops should be no surprise. These are the familiar underpinnings of fascist movements historically.