At what point a contemporary political phenomenon crosses over into fascism can be a matter of taxonomical pedantry, often misguided—for instance, Bolsonaro’s economic policies are more dick-out neoliberal than Mussolini’s, but the term”fascist” is relevant and in no way hyperbolic. I’ve been cautious about drawing the analogy too closely with Trump and his foul helpers, but a combination of the concentration camps and not only the emails that got Kimball wet but their aftermath—that at-best semi-coherent melange of demonization where one’s enemies are depicted as simultaneously ethnoculturally unassimilable, communist (read: economically egalitarian in some sense), and effete and anti-“hard-working regular people”... well, that has some antecedents.
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