Das unmögliche Versprechen: Erleben wir die Rückkehr des Faschismus? | Ganz rechts
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/apr/18/the-impossible-promise-are-we-witnessing-the-return-of-fascism
Das unmögliche Versprechen: Erleben wir die Rückkehr des Faschismus? | Ganz rechts
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/apr/18/the-impossible-promise-are-we-witnessing-the-return-of-fascism
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There is a netflix special called the Rise of the Third Reich – Its done really well – starts with Hitler during WW1 and how him, and the right wing party, ascended to power… then absolute power. It is almost 1:1 what the trump administration has been doing.
A good article on the whole, but I don’t find the case it tries to make for distinguishing between *extreme right* and *radical right* all that compelling. Yes, fascism today comes in different packaging than it did a century ago – how could it not? – but it’s still far more than same old than anything new, even down to the broad support from the business class.
outside of electoral politics yes
Electorally no so far I’m kinda amazed we avoided a relevant far right fascist populist party like some of the shit you see out of Europe
In the US? Absolutely. In Canada? Not even fucking close. Our most corrupt politicians aren’t even remotely close to NSDAP/NAZI level fascism. People like to say Ford or Smith are fascists because they have no idea what fascism is beyond Nazis bad, and other people say Carney for the same reasons.
Trump is basically copying Hitler’s playbook with modern twists, and just like back then no one is doing anything to stop him. Americans should be rioting in the streets, protesting en masse, and planning general strikes. Instead they’re complaining about it on the internet while Trump and his buddies rape the planet and pillage the coffers.
The scariest part is Trump doesn’t have long left in this world, whether through his declining health or the actions of some deranged twit, and what happens when he dies is anyone’s guess but there will absolutely be some kind of power struggle that makes everything substantially worse before any hope of getting better.
That or the US will straight up descend into civil unrest and violence.
The thing no one tells you about fascism is that it is fundamentally a development within liberalism. Weimar Germany was a very modern looking country, pre-fascist Italy less so, but very much a place where liberals had been running around setting up „checks and balances“ for fifty years. In the 20th century communism flourished in countries where there never had been a liberal tradition, never really caught hold in any liberal country but that didn’t stop them from freaking out about the phenomenon. Fascism was one of the ways liberal states sought to respond (another, better way was in marvellously expanded social welfare programs like our own universal health care).
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