How does the rise of fascism in Europe compare with modern Republican America?

[Ramsey Barner]

A few excerpts from a New York Review of Books article comparing the rise of fascism in Europe with modern Republican America:

"If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell."

"The most original revelation of the current wave of authoritarians is that the construction of overtly antidemocratic dictatorships aspiring to totalitarianism is unnecessary for holding power."

"Total control of the press and other media is likewise unnecessary, since a flood of managed and fake news so pollutes the flow of information that facts and truth become irrelevant as shapers of public opinion."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/10/25/suffocation-of-democracy/

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Selective populism was forseen by Umberto Eco years ago.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

[Eko]

2. K&R

[Rhiannon12866]

3. K&R. Very interesting analysis

Thanks for posting.