• mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    (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:

    1. Active resistance from within the conservative establishment that got hijacked by the fascists (Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney and etc)
    2. 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.

    Point #2 is why I say this is a bad idea.