1. Maus. Whoopi Goldberg. Swastikas (some ironic, some not) at the so-called Truckers Convoy in Ottawa. Lots of fascist discourse going around but much of it shows a decreasing awareness of what fascism actually was.
2. One reason I like John Ganz' Unpopular Front newsletter so much is that he's done a lot of hard thinking about what fascism was and how the term is still relevant now, beyond being an all purpose insult,
3. "Fascism" isn't just any bad form of politics or even authoritarianism: it's the politics that emerges in liberal democracies that are gridlocked, which opens up a path for strongman leader whose path to power comes from fusing conservative elite & roughneck street fighters.
4. John has a very fruitful way of thinking about fascism as a process & the way it parallels (or sometimes doesn't parallel) contemporary anti-systems right. It's a very fair minded argument, charitable to critics. I had a very fruitful talk with him. jeetheer.substack.com/p/fascism-as-m…
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
