Tag: Fascism

Trump cannot be a fascist

I’d love to ask Trump’s accusers: ‘Given the facts, how can you sit there and tell us the Donald is the Duce, let alone the Führer? Surely you on the left are a far closer fit, aren’t you?’

Polly Billington – face of the emerging master class

WHEN the voters of East Thanet inevitably return a Labour MP at the forthcoming general election, most will be blissfully unaware that their new parliamentary representative is a puritanical authoritarian.

A Genealogy of Corporatism

It’s not capitalism. It’s not socialism. The new word we are hearing these days is the right word: corporatism. It refers to the merger of industry and state into a unit with the purpose of achieving some grand visionary end, the liberty of individuals be damned. The word itself predates its successor, which is fascism. But the eff word has become totally incomprehensible and useless through misuse so there is clarity to be gained by discussing the older term.

Biden’s Speech Had It All Backward

Biden’s Democrats seek a one-party state. Trump’s followers want freedom from government power.

The Democrats have the “fascist” business wrong.

Biden Is Angry but Not Serious

This Joe Biden seems to think anger conveys seriousness. But apparently no one inside the West Wing is asking whether these outbursts really help him—or only underscore his failure to do anything about what he’s complaining about.