Cameron MacLeodAug 16, 2025

A good* historical tour.

“The statistics are brutal. Fascist takeovers prevented after winning power democratically: zero. Average length of fascist rule once established: 31 years. Fascist regimes removed by voting: zero. Fascist regimes removed by asking nicely: zero. Most were removed by war or military coups, and tens of millions died in the process.”

https://medium.com/@carmitage/i-researched-every-attempt-to-stop-fascism-in-history-the-success-rate-is-0-a665e2e048a2

* for various versions of “good”, see replies for corrections and context that some people feel is lacking. They sent lots of comments to me but zero to the author?

Show threadMisterMakerAug 16, 2025
@c_9 Sounds like Survivorship bias tbh. And I hope I am right. Basically if fascism doesn't survive people won't call it fascism because it never got too that stage. So only the moments when it does evolve into fascism it gets noted as fascism.
Show threadkdacar
@MisterMaker @c_9 in this case, pretty sure we already elected the fascist. Very concerned there may not be another democratic election.
Aug 16, 2025 at 8:08pmTusky