"... a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."
-- Robert O. Paxton, 'Anatomy of Fascism' [4267] Kindle edition.
I'm particularly struck here by the phrase "pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing". So far, they seem to be avoiding the commitment to external expansion.
So far...but it's still early, and there's still plenty of time for things to ramp up. Yesterday's release of the Hur Report struck me as what might be the beginning of the use of language intended to convince the Sheeple that Joe Biden is indeed senile and unfit to serve.
Fascism is:
"... a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."
-- Robert O. Paxton, 'Anatomy of Fascism' [4267] Kindle edition.
I'm particularly struck here by the phrase "pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing". So far, they seem to be avoiding the commitment to external expansion.
So far...but it's still early, and there's still plenty of time for things to ramp up. Yesterday's release of the Hur Report struck me as what might be the beginning of the use of language intended to convince the Sheeple that Joe Biden is indeed senile and unfit to serve.