one sticking point for US fascist aggression is the lack of any revanchist sentiment in the country, for the good reason that the US was a massive geopolitical winner throughout most of its history.
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The Iraq war was stupid and immoral but we accomplished the military and even political objectives there. At a much higher moral and actual cost than was promised, to be clear.
I can't quite see how this would happen but the thing I'm scared about is whether clownish revanchism can create + lose this territory, creating a material basis for an ugly strain of US politics that has not heretofore really existed.
what you instead have is the Lost Cause, broadened from being just the South to the nostalgia for white supremacy as a whole and the desire for revenge against the people who took your birthright away.
In the 19th Century Canada was in many respects the US’s “six counties” but that notion is well out of living memories despite various Trump-sanitizers attempting to exhume it
Actually, I've wondered if this was part of the reason why there was so little appeal for an interwar fascist movement in Britain--they just won so much.
Yeah, it's the difference in posturing between "we have this majority American area someone wrongfully took from us" and Trump basically smashing a beer bottle and threatening to fight the entire bar filled with our friends.
Second point taken, but why does that have to be a sticking point for US fascist aggression?
Without revanchism, America has managed to assemble a nice little empire, and is pretty much unique among Western democracy in keeping significant numbers of its people in second class status.
Retaliation for loss of cultural dominance… may point to why cultural grievance is critical to right wing movements since territorial loss or other perceived humiliations are less apparent
Well, we unfortunately have at least one significant and regional power bloc in this country that has built up their identity around being Seething Losers anyways.
We do have the whole "shining city on a hill" thing, though. The rest of the world is trying to tarnish us and must be "dealt with" in the minds of conservatives.
This is why Trump is going after places the US could have annexed but didn't -- Cuba, Greenland, Iceland, and saber rattling about N. Mexico and Canada
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Without revanchism, America has managed to assemble a nice little empire, and is pretty much unique among Western democracy in keeping significant numbers of its people in second class status.
Debatably Bermuda.
But really, it's been W after W. And those places aren't particularly desired anymore.