Jack Yan (甄爵恩)Aug 21, 2025

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Getting out of #fascism: what history tells the US

https://jackyan.com/blog/2025/08/how-does-the-us-extract-itself-from-fascism/ #USA #politics

Getting out of fascism: what history tells the US

US writer Chris Armitage has a piece on Medium, with two titles depending on where you look: ‘We live in a fascist nation. What now?’ and ‘I researched every Democratic attempt to stop fascism in history. the success rate after fascists were elected was 0%’. The key takeaway: ‘Once fascists win power democratically, they have

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"No wealthy democracy with nuclear weapons has ever fallen to fascism. The 1930s examples everyone cites were broken countries. Weimar Germany was weakened by World War I and hyperinflation. Italy was barely industrialized. Spain was largely agrarian. They didn’t have the world’s reserve currency. They didn’t have thousands of nukes. They didn’t have surveillance technology that would make the Stasi weep with envy."

#ChrisArmitage, 2025

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

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We live in a fascist nation. What now?

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"America has all of that. Plus a population where 30–40% genuinely wants authoritarian rule as long as it hurts the 'right people'. The historical playbook is useless here. We’re in unprecedented territory.

But that also means the old rules about what’s possible might not apply."

#ChrisArmitage, 2025

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

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We live in a fascist nation. What now?