Crash Course: Never mind Hitler: "Late Fascism" is here, and it doesn't need Hugo Boss uniforms

Fascism has been lurking under the surface of liberal democracy all along — we just didn't want to see it [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnkN3XP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvaTN2aTNreHd5Zi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWM4eTdmMTZkY25XA3NwY0IKZaLaWK5lJFKJ-FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnkN3XP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvd3N0ajhmYWhqaS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWM4eTdmMTZkY24mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZaLaWK5lJFKJ-FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRnkN3XP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvd3Vwd2w3dzhzZy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWM4eTdmMTZkY25XA3NwY0IKZaLaWK5lJFKJ-FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnkN3XP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvcXVycWUyMXp4dS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWM4eTdmMTZkY25XA3NwY0IKZaLaWK5lJFKJ-FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnkN3XP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbzhxanppMjdqNy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWM4eTdmMTZkY25XA3NwY0IKZaLaWK5lJFKJ-FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnkN3XP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvdzEyZXF3bXY0Yi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWM4eTdmMTZkY25XA3NwY0IKZaLaWK5lJFKJ-FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnkN3XP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvdW4zNWhhcW81eS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWM4eTdmMTZkY25XA3NwY0IKZaLaWK5lJFKJ-FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo Never mind Hitler: "Late Fascism" is here, and it doesn't need Hugo Boss uniforms From Andrew O'Hehir: The problem for leftist opponents of fascism is that fascist ideology is not purely or entirely deceptive; it also contains fragments of “an old and romantic antagonism to capitalism, derived from deprivations in contemporary life, with a longing for a vague ‘other.’” To put that in more familiar terms, fascism is driven by mythic yearning — whether for an imaginary premodern “Aryan” folk culture or for America’s ahistorical lost greatness — and the rationalist counternarratives about economic progress or class conflict variously put forward by socialism and liberalism have a tough time competing with that. 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