We are here.
(written in 2003) Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism.
We’ve been here. A lot of these were heavily evident even during the Bush years post-9/11 and the “War on Terror.”
It has been a slow and steady slide into authoritarianism.
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And as a brief note of positivity,
Not everyone, https://rollcall.com/2019/07/23/photo-of-the-day-stewart-smiles-at-mcconnell/
But now we’re really here. It’s all blatantly out in the open now as it never has been before, and they are explicitly running on it, not keeping it behind the scenes.