Fascism Has Not Yet Come to America

Fascism Has Not Yet Come to America

Endless jeremiads from the mainstream media, academia and a large chunk of the political class warn that Americans are on the precipice of a fascist hellIl Duce. Some prominent progressive scholars, like Yale’s Timothy Snyder, a historian of fascism, claim to have read the Weimar-like tea leaves and have now relocated to Canada. Trump’s vengeful actions against his well-entrenched enemies certainly invite parallels to the kind of behaviour exhib…