Fascists don’t care about and won’t respect governmental norms. The only way to stop them is preventing them from getting onto power in the first place and we’ve been failing miserably at that since Reagan.
(Edit: “Fascists don’t care” part is 100% accurate. That’s more than anything what defines fascists, the in-group and the winning being more important than any particular set of laws or norms. “The only way to stop them” is what I think is inaccurate.)
I don’t think this is accurate. Trump’s a fascist, and he came to power already in the first place, and we survived (so far).
How Democracies Die goes into this in quite a bit of detail with historical examples. Basically my takeaway from it is that the key factors are:
Active resistance from within the conservative establishment that got hijacked by the fascists (Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney and etc)
The non-fascists taking extraordinary care to preserve democratic norms with their own conduct, not just escalating in kind which leads to a no-holds-barred shit show which the fascists are usually equipped to win.
Fascists don’t care about and won’t respect governmental norms. The only way to stop them is preventing them from getting onto power in the first place and we’ve been failing miserably at that since Reagan.
(Edit: “Fascists don’t care” part is 100% accurate. That’s more than anything what defines fascists, the in-group and the winning being more important than any particular set of laws or norms. “The only way to stop them” is what I think is inaccurate.)
I don’t think this is accurate. Trump’s a fascist, and he came to power already in the first place, and we survived (so far).
How Democracies Die goes into this in quite a bit of detail with historical examples. Basically my takeaway from it is that the key factors are:
Point #2 is why I say this is a bad idea.