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kleinbl00 · 1342 days ago · link · · parent · post: Ryanair flight carrying wanted Belarusian journalist forced to land in Minsk
Jason Stanley argued in How Fascism Works that fundamentally, Fascism is a substitution of identity for ideology, "we are" for "we believe." Fascism doesn't absolutely require a charismatic populist at the heart of it... but it doesn't hurt? Makes things... a whole lot more durable? We lucked out big time in that the black heart of American fascism is a lazy, feckless aristocrat past his prime who is too venal to look beyond the rallies. If George Wallace had the chance to run in 2016 we woulda been so fukt.