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How do we "know" how modern Fascism works? [1]

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Date: 2023-10-31  

I occasionally jump over to Project Syndicate for a peek at where intellectual opinions are.

This article is worth the time to mull through.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/populism-far-right-relies-on-mainstream-conservative-elites-by-jan-werner-mueller-2023-10

Here’s a soft summary that should tickle you to click on the article

Bartels, a highly regarded Vanderbilt University scholar whose previous work concentrated on rising inequality in the United States, and who is known among social scientists for his distinctly hard-headed understanding of democracy, is someone very much worth listening to. Drawing on data from the European Social Survey, he demonstrates, in Democracy Erodes from the Top, that much of the conventional wisdom about populism today is simply wrong. Views and attitudes commonly associated with right-wing populism – such as hostility to immigration and opposition to the euro – have not increased markedly in recent years. Moreover, contrary to what many expected during and after the 2009-15 euro crisis, overall satisfaction with democracy and the European Union has not declined dramatically.

Bold claim?

Worth the read.

I would chime in that the necessary fuel to push the fascists to the top is empowered bigotry. This we see everywhere and all over. Let’s be clear that it takes a billionaire class to create the artificial access to money and and media for the job to be done. It’s a cost effective power grab if you have money to burn and desire to inflict the necessary suffering to take and hold power. Look at the war room for the Jan 6 folks — billionaires and sycophants all over the controls and funding of the theater, bigots with fantasies in the streets who’s only remaining needs were the will to go to full extremism and the numbers to achieve it.

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