What Fascism Is & Why It Rises

“The Children of MAGA” Cambridge Dictionary online defines the meaning of the phrase “pearl clutching” as follows: “a shocked reaction in which you show

The White House has been transformed into the headquarters of a conspiracy to legitimize fascism, brand anti-fascism as “terrorism,” and mobilize the repressive machinery of the state against the population.

“Historically, the most terrible things war, genocide, and slavery have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” — Howard Zinn The irony is unbearable. US President Donald Trump has saturated public life in lies, turned immigrants and Black citizens into targets of contempt, and made corruption and violence the new…

The Rally We Chose to Forget In February 1939, more than 20,000 American citizens packed Madison Square Garden to salute a portrait of George Washington

A former Republican columnist concedes: Trump is teetering toward fascism.Time isn't proving kind for the case that Donald Trump's substance and positions so far in his third run for the White House are taking on fascist leanings, The Atlantic's Tom Nichols wrote in a column titled "Trump Crosses a ...

America’s Rejected the Far Right Democratically — So Now It’s Trying to Take Society by Force

Philosophy professor Jason Stanley is leaving the US for Canada, “the Ukraine of North America,” because he believes Trump’s America is “pretty far along” in the grips of fascism.

If You Think America’s Future Looks Bleaker Than Ever, You’re Right. Here’s Why.

Lady Liberty’s torch is dimming. Republicans insist that she is fatigued and her fire has been quenched by the caravan of migrants exploiting her generosity. They may seek to close the United States to asylum seekers but conservative politicians are opening up our borders to a century-old European ideology ready to invade our democratic union: fascism.

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They’re a lot like the old fascists, but with a little more polish—and a lot more money.

The franchise’s Disney era has been defined by toothless politics, but "Andor" Season 2 is a vivid metaphor for America’s descent into authoritarianism.

An alliance between the far right and Silicon Valley oligarchs has given rise to a form of “end times fascism,” says journalist Naomi Klein, who details in a recent essay co-authored with Astra Taylor how many wealthy elites are preparing for the end of the world even as they contribute to growing inequality, political instability and the climate crisis. Klein says that while billionaires dream of escaping to bunkered enclaves or even to space, President Donald Trump and other right-wing leaders are turning their countries into militarized fortress states to keep out immigrants from abroad and ramp up authoritarian control domestically. “There’s always an apocalyptic quality to fascism, but fascism of the 1930s and ’40s had a horizon” for a utopian future, says Klein. Today, by contrast, “we’re up against people who are actively betting against the future — not just actively betting against it, but fueling the fires that are burning this world.”

The right wants to turn this moment into more violence

Banning Michelangelo? Creating SS-style forces? America’s Fanatics Are Learning How to Turn a Society Authoritarian From the Bottom-Up

The right wants to turn this moment into more violence

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The right wants to turn this moment into more violence

This has not been the holiday season that so many of us had planned.Just two months ago, the good and righteous among us fervently hoped that America’s worst days would finally be put behind her, and a period of endless possibility would begin.Glass ceilings would be broken, and maybe for the time e...

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When the Clock Broke offers a tour of the ’90s, from Klansmen strangled on talk shows to a drugged-up Bush Sr running for office. Ganz also argues that the far right of the ’90s was a precursor to Trump, a claim reliant on distortions of past and present.

A leading expert on far-right, oppressive governments around the world is warning that former President Donald Trump would usher in fascism in the United States if he wins a second term this fall.In a detailed interview with Guardian reporter Alice Herman, scholar and author Ruth Ben-Ghiat — a profe...

In a primetime address Thursday, President Biden warned Donald Trump and his radical supporters are threatening the foundations of the republic. Biden said, “Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal,” and that MAGA Republicans present a “clear and present danger to our democracy,” referring to Trump’s campaign slogan of “Make America Great Again.” We speak with Nancy MacLean, author and Duke University historian, who says Biden’s speech was a “wake-up call” for the nation and mainstream media. “He was absolutely right, in my opinion, that the Trump wing of the party and the MAGA Republicans have jumped the rails of constitutional democracy, of the factual universe and of representative democracy.”

Timothy Snyder, a historian and author of ‘On Tyranny,’ recently announced his decision to leave America due to rising authoritarianism. He also reacted to T...