Alex Rothman
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Alex Rothman
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Politics, pop culture & baby animals (for balance). @amprog, @civilrights alum. now: state & local govt performance. California boy living in Chicago. 🏳️‍🌈
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a cookie monster is sitting in front of a window and says waiting
ALT: a cookie monster is sitting in front of a window and says waiting
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January 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I keep coming back to Paxton’s definition of fascism.
What Is Fascism? The moment has come to give fascism a usable short handle, even though we know that it encompasses its subject no better than a snapshot encompasses a person. Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
September 30, 2024 at 9:22 PM