Just Like That, Fascism Arrives

Matt Rowan
Untoward
Published in
5 min readOct 14, 2020

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Fascism might come to America draped in a flag or it might come in the form of a monster clown baby.

I make an earnest point of analyzing situations as honestly and openly as I can, even when the reality of those situations is unpleasant. Reality has a way of being unpleasant, which might explain the rise of more palatable (for some) conspiracy theories that have rapidly grown in popularity and representation over the past four years. It doesn’t get more unpleasant in the United States today than the far right extremism that’s taken…

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