Harris is wrong and a bit right (link at bottom). The "nationalism" or more accurate the "Fascism" of the 1930's is a similar breed of fascism that Trump is implementing but using a totally different distribution method.
This modern Fascist Movement is far more than just a nationalism "my country is cool" movement and greatly differs from the 1930's version. Modern Fascism is a revolutionary idea that demands the total transformation of our political system.
Fascism is about constructing a selective myth of the nation that the fascist administration is trying to violently renew/rebirth/rebuild. It is a myth that is based on exclusion and inclusion. Its about marginalizing, deporting, disappearing, arresting, and out-casting certain social groups that are considered undesirable.
“The longing for total renewal continues to shape postwar fascism, but, now its populist base has collapsed, many forms of it have been forced to pursue a hidden agenda, deliberately concealing the illiberal, totalising or violent implications of achieving their ultimate goal. This is done in order for fascist extremism to be accommodated in an age in which revolutionary nationalism is still overwhelmingly discredited by association with the horrors of the second world war." - Roger Griffin (2018) Fascism historian.
The means of implementing fascism in the 1930's was slightly different from Trump's Fascist movement. Similarities still abound, the 1930's fascism rewarded the ingroups handsomely stealing Jewish businesses for instance (today's version is the billionaires syphoning off money from the people). Also similarly still, fascism in the 1930's and now can be characterized by mass deportations, mass incarcerations without trials, family separation of children, expulsion from the military, pardoning of crimes from in-groups.
The difference is that totalitarian governments don't work in modern times but authoritarian does. For instance authoritarian governments don't ban protests (shit, you can protest in China and they do which influences the government) but you kill Palestinian protesting by disappearing enough protesters to make it not worth the risk to protest. You don't ban what people can say, but you limit their ability to get government grants and accept foreign students if they don't bend to your will (DEI?). Exclusion of voice occurs with gerrymandering and voter roll purges and intimidation and misinformation.
Fascism is alive and spreading in the U.S. just like it did in the 1930's Germany with a different breed based on authoritarian not totalitarian. Righties think that is some distinction that separates the eras. It doesnt.
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This modern Fascist Movement is far more than just a nationalism "my country is cool" movement and greatly differs from the 1930's version. Modern Fascism is a revolutionary idea that demands the total transformation of our political system.
Fascism is about constructing a selective myth of the nation that the fascist administration is trying to violently renew/rebirth/rebuild. It is a myth that is based on exclusion and inclusion. Its about marginalizing, deporting, disappearing, arresting, and out-casting certain social groups that are considered undesirable.
“The longing for total renewal continues to shape postwar fascism, but, now its populist base has collapsed, many forms of it have been forced to pursue a hidden agenda, deliberately concealing the illiberal, totalising or violent implications of achieving their ultimate goal. This is done in order for fascist extremism to be accommodated in an age in which revolutionary nationalism is still overwhelmingly discredited by association with the horrors of the second world war." - Roger Griffin (2018) Fascism historian.
The means of implementing fascism in the 1930's was slightly different from Trump's Fascist movement. Similarities still abound, the 1930's fascism rewarded the ingroups handsomely stealing Jewish businesses for instance (today's version is the billionaires syphoning off money from the people). Also similarly still, fascism in the 1930's and now can be characterized by mass deportations, mass incarcerations without trials, family separation of children, expulsion from the military, pardoning of crimes from in-groups.
The difference is that totalitarian governments don't work in modern times but authoritarian does. For instance authoritarian governments don't ban protests (shit, you can protest in China and they do which influences the government) but you kill Palestinian protesting by disappearing enough protesters to make it not worth the risk to protest. You don't ban what people can say, but you limit their ability to get government grants and accept foreign students if they don't bend to your will (DEI?). Exclusion of voice occurs with gerrymandering and voter roll purges and intimidation and misinformation.
Fascism is alive and spreading in the U.S. just like it did in the 1930's Germany with a different breed based on authoritarian not totalitarian. Righties think that is some distinction that separates the eras. It doesnt.
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