What defines fascism? I attempted to answer this by reviewing what scholars and texts on the subject (including Hannah Arendt, Umberto Eco, Jason Stanley, Lawrence Britt, Emilio Gentile, Roger Griffin, Robert Paxton, and the Encyclopedia Britannica) identified as the characteristics of fascism, and compiling a list. The following characteristics are the ones identified most often…
Month: February 2020
The US is Headed for Single Party Rule
“Tell me why you kept kicking him. You had already won.” “Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones too.” —Ender’s Game When former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich first called politics a “war for power” he spelled out the philosophy of the future of his…