In my personal experience when you say it looks like George Wallace more than Hitler you are mocked for being hysterical
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Andrew Sabl
Unpopular opinion: both things are true. Campus/online leftists have always loved calling normie conservatives (and many liberals) fascists. *And* they—like most Americans—are bad at recognizing real American fascism when it looks less like Hitler than like George Wallace.
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It captures everything wrong with the US.
It’s like we keep repeating history.
Fascism was at our founding. It’s who we are. I’m not sure how we break that.
But like, the post-war genesis of the US neo-Nazi movement was just a mix of Bircherist anti-communism and genuine Hitlerism.
1. Racist hierarchies;
2. We’re a great power engaged in a new Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
Fascism isnt just HItler and that shouldn't be our only reference. I would argue we should better educate on what fascism is as a concept, rather than just using Hitler.
It also allows people to ignore that Fascism was popular in the rest of the world.
Someone remind him which side is deleting all black accomplishments.
"Campus/online leftists": called it early [correctly]
"Normie conservatives": voted lockstep with trump far more than defectors
The American consumer of cable news has become as predictable and easy to play as a toy piano.
Self deception is one hell of a drug