The people today who dismiss the use of "the f-word" to describe US politics are the descendants of those 1980s and 90s era pundits who assured us that the GOP was a totally normal party, fully accommodated to the idea that the US was a multi-racial democracy committed to religious pluralism.

The point is not that the GOP has always been a fascist party. That's silly. The point is that an internally diverse, minoritarian political persuasion we can call "a home-grown, fascist tradition" has always been a feature of modern US politics. Beginning in the 50s it targeted the GOP for takeover

It’s really interesting reading pieces by people like Chip and then reading the mainstream coverage and it’s eerie seeing the echo of that kind of misstep in the mainstream coverage now, when even more as a mistake and it’s more clear that we are dealing with the fascist movement