DirtyOldTown 🍉 on Nostr: Understand this: The Hungary/Orbán fascism model the GOP wants to emulate isn't an ...
Understand this:
The Hungary/Orbán fascism model the GOP wants to emulate isn't an update of Nazi fascism. It's an update of communist fascism. It's about absorbing and incorporating the apparatus of the state into the party, so that the party cannot be ousted, and so that the steady, workaday business of the government becomes the relentless, one inch at a time enactment of that party's agenda.
It moves slower, but it does so in order to cement each step and make any/all of it harder to undo. It's less immediately catastrophic, but this may last generations.
The Hungary/Orbán fascism model the GOP wants to emulate isn't an update of Nazi fascism. It's an update of communist fascism. It's about absorbing and incorporating the apparatus of the state into the party, so that the party cannot be ousted, and so that the steady, workaday business of the government becomes the relentless, one inch at a time enactment of that party's agenda.
It moves slower, but it does so in order to cement each step and make any/all of it harder to undo. It's less immediately catastrophic, but this may last generations.