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American Fascism Is Nothing New
What we call Fascism is nothing new for the American epoch
It has always been here
Fascist type thinking has been alive and well in America long before there was such a thing as Fascism. Rich white Oligarchs have also run America for themselves since the beginning. I was reading an article by a popular Medium writer about Trump and DeSantis being the second and third wave of American Fascism, and how they are a continuing threat to Democracy. While I agree with the overall sentiments, in my view, he and others who agree with his article, are giving Trump and DeSantis way too much credit. Additionally, America has never had a Democracy, and us Progressives should quit pretending it is one.
America was founded on what we now call Fascist principles
The author of that article broke down the first wave of Fascism as being the American racial policies of the 1930s that was admired and partially copied by Hitler. Unfortunately, this leaves out the fact that for almost the entirity of American history, many if not most white people had what we would now call Fascist type thinking. In fact, America was founded on Fascist principles, which are: authoritarianism, racial nationalism, male hierarchy, caste, militarism, and practically speaking, a state religion.