Fascist America: Have We Finally Turned The Corner?

Author offers periodic assessment of America's potential to go fascist. And the news is better than it's been in years.

Research by Political Research Associates estimates that, at any given time in our history, roughly 10-12 percent of the country's population has been bred-in-the-bone right-wing authoritarians -- the people who are hard-wired to think in terms of fascist control and order. Our latter-day Christian Dominionists, sexual fundamentalists and white nationalists are the descendants -- sometimes, the literal blood descendants -- of the same people who joined the ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - May. 1, 2012

In the wake of … victory, the far right’s new electees shifted into overdrive, immediately introducing brutally aggressive legislation to bust unions, disenfranchise Democratic voters and roll back a century of progress on reproductive rights. The speed and power of the onslaught was breathtaking — but it was also driven by desperation.

Our enemies are noisy and well-funded, but they are also small in number, crazy and increasingly despised.

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