Americans only like fascism when it benefits them.
These people that Trump fired are no longer fans.
These maga voters that their spouses are being deported are no longer fans.
The bluecollar farmers/workers that are losing it all are no longer fans. Only the rich love fascism.
In 1948, a group of intellectuals—including Albert Einstein (yes, that Einstein) & Hannah Arendt (who coined “the banality of evil”)—sent a letter to The New York Times with a straightforward message: “Hey, maybe let’s not prop up fascists this time?” https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/when-warnings-go-unheeded-how-to
I recently re-read Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls". For anyone unfamiliar with it, the protagonist is an american volunteer in the spanish civil war, fighting against the fascists, alongside spanish guerillas. There's one line that stood out to me, reading it in 2025. 1/2
One of the spanish guerillas asks the protagonist if they don't have fascists where he comes from (that is, in America). He responds: "There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes." 2/2
If the fascists capitalists would leave Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid alone, they would succeed. But the nature of capitalism is to sell the mob the rope used to hang capitalists.
This seems less like parody and more like an observation. Just yesterday, I listened with dismay as someone argued that getting rid of due process was a necessary step we needed to take so we could deal with the "Venezuelan gang problem." Americans do seem to like fascism.
“Americans hate capital F Fascism, but a strong man ignoring the constitution and court orders, taking control of universities and punish media organizations is something different.”
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These people that Trump fired are no longer fans.
These maga voters that their spouses are being deported are no longer fans.
The bluecollar farmers/workers that are losing it all are no longer fans. Only the rich love fascism.
https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/when-warnings-go-unheeded-how-to
https://bsky.app/profile/nytpitchbot.bsky.social/post/3lkv5ne7tzc2k
By Bret Stephens
And if you look at history fascism, swings from a rope