That world of “normal” politics is dying, and gradually being replaced by a malignant new normalcy. In response, new rules and frameworks must be adopted if we really want to stem the fascist tide. But decades of habit and personal, financial and emotional investment in a political and social system that rewarded American elites and their mouthpieces are not easy to reject.
Trumpism and other forms of fascism are fantasies dominated by backward reasoning. The leaders and followers have already decided that they have been betrayed, and will use any means available to win and keep power. They have committed themselves to a set of false “truths” in service to the cause. Reality as it actually exists will be bent and twisted to “prove” that these fantasies and their alternate reality are real.
-https://www.alternet.org/2021/10/fascists/
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