It Wasn't Fascism All Along
Conservatism was a distinct ideology but it is dead and it is not coming back.
The President of the United States recently compared his territorial expansion plans, favourably, to Nazi wars of conquest. His administration asserts the right of its paramilitary arm to detain any person, at any time, for any reason. Officials openly say that criticisms of state murders will be met with more murders. The world’s richest man uses his new media megaphone to daily promote white supremacist conspiracy theories.
Despite endless obfuscation, sanitizing, and sanewashing from the mainstream media, the debate on if we’re living though a resurgence of fascism is now over. And, honestly, it’s been over for some time. We are.
This does not mean that, as many have vaguely assumed, our new reality is a ‘post-liberal’ one. There are still plenty of liberals—more, arguably. The ideology that has utterly failed is conservatism; the center right has ceased to exist across the world, its institutions taken over by fascists, its voters pledging allegiance to a new flag. There are, increasingly, only two teams—a progressive liberal one, and a far-right one, with little in between and everyone else forced to pick a side. …
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