Just Like That, Fascism Takes Root

Very hard to disentangle a country from the rat king of fascism once it’s taken root.

In the early 2000s Laurence W. Britt wrote a helpful breakdown of precisely what constitutes a fascist government. I think people have been trained to think of it as “any government that oppresses people” and called it a day. It’s a bit more nuanced than that, however, and even Britt’s article at times struggles with the nuance that has been a core feature of fascism since its inception in Europe in the 1920s and ’30s. For…