12/11/2025
Fun fact: The original N**i Party actually did have nationalism and socialism.
Also: Socialism and communism are not the same. In fact the N**is, the National Socialist Worker's Party, fought communists in the streets.
I posted recently about the good old days when we all agreed that N**is were the bad guys and that no matter what our differences were we could all get behind being against N**is. Of course I had people commenting about how nOt EvErYoNe YoU dIsAgReE wItH iS a NaZi…
And there was at least one pro-N**i scumbag.
There were a few people invoking Godwin’s Law. Fun fact: Godwin himself went on the record ABOUT TRUMP in 2023 saying,
“I think that it would be fair to say that Trump knows what he’s doing. I think he [chooses his] rhetoric on purpose. But yeah, there are some real similarities. If you’ve read Hitler’s own writing — which I don’t recommend to anyone, by the way — you see a dehumanizing dimension throughout, but the speeches are an even more interesting case.
“What we have of Hitler’s speeches are mostly recorded, and they’re not always particularly coherent.”
These people, this generation of conservatives, they hate socialism unless it’s floating farmers after wreaking havoc in their markets or unless banking or capital markets need an influx of tax dollars. At least the National Socialist Worker’s Party was willing to wet the proletarians beak once in a while.
So let’s look at some of the features of Fascism that the N**i-adjacent and N**i-curious types on the American political right [and keep in mind that for the last quarter century when N**is run for office they run on the Republican ticket] seem really, really comfortable with:
1] A single, powerful party and dictator hold absolute control, aiming to control all aspects of public and private life.
2] Intense focus on national unity, glory, and purity, often fueled by myths of past decline and present victimhood, scapegoating minorities as enemies.
3] An infallible, charismatic leader with a strong personality who claims to represent the nation's will.
4] Glorification of military power, war, and violence as purifying and redemptive forces for national strength and expansion.
5] Forcible silencing of political opponents, unions, and dissent through terror and propaganda.
6] State control over the economy, taming capitalism by controlling labor and industry for national goals, but often supporting private property.
7] Rejection of individual rights, democracy, liberalism, pluralism, and communism, viewing them as weak and divisive.
8] Belief in natural social hierarchies, often involving racial or ethnic superiority, promoting the dominant group and persecuting others.
9] Control of mass media to indoctrinate the populace, create a "new man," and foster national myths.
For the record: I don’t think all Republicans are fascists, Christian nationalists, Klan members or deeply closeted, or perhaps not so deeply closeted, N**i enthusiasts or some other flavor of white supremacist. The fact is there are loads of far right extremists, including those who voted for Trump and his allies, and that they certainly check a lot of these boxes.
Then there are the ones who criticize Trump privately but never, ever cross him. These are the enablers. All these people are voting with and in a political coalition with the Klan, N**is and the other white supremacists.
Then there are the press and social media oligarchs, even the one who used “Democracy dies in Darkness” as the motto for his newspaper, roll right over and shovel money at him. They’re obviously worse than the enablers, these are people whose standards are malleable and who are willing to fund Hair Furor.
Everybody else on the right willing to push back against Trump is in a political coalition with Democrats and those on the left in the pro-democracy camp.
These are the two camps: Camp Fascism and the anti-fascist camp.
Choose one.
Good night and good luck.
