Alex WildAug 16, 2023

It's not that Americans themselves are getting more fascist, more hateful. If anything, Americans are becoming more tolerant.

It's that a small set of extremely rich people is getting bolder about funding extremism, bolder about supporting coups, bolder about buying courts.

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"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." ~ Sinclair Lewis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/13/african-american-studies-republican-ban-florida
- why educational reform typically employed by conservatives is fascist
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/us-conservatives-embrace-authoritarianism-anti-democracy-20230813.html
- how prevailing sentiment and zeitgeist of conservatives is extremist in nature
Banning ideas and authors is not a ‘culture war’ – it’s fascism

The media’s framing of measures like Florida’s African American studies ban is a dangerous falsification of reality

The Guardian
Aug 17, 2023 at 2:08pmWeb