FASCISM, NO NEED TO DELVE INTO THE PAST TO DESCRIBE IT.
A mere 10 or so months ago there were people who wished to avoid the F word. Fascism. "We were prepared," they said, "with the Constitutional guarantees left us by our great fore-fathers." We had a legislature that would provide checks on the executive. And if they couldn't provide those checks, we have the Supreme Court. That checks and balances thing proved too damned weak when cheques were offered from accounts with unlimited balances. Fascism can be quantified. Measured by the written words of people who lived through it. From the fascism of Musilini, to 3rd Reich Fascism, to Spanish facism, to Hungarian fascism practiced by Victor Orban, to the 22nd century fascism of the Trump stink. There will be nuances here and there but they have the same basic principles. You can find other descriptions, I prefer to use Umberto Eco's 14 characteristics. A writer who grew up at the confluence of Italian, Spanish, Turkish and German fascism, in what until recently ...