(for better and for worse)

Vance on the other hand, was born in the voice gaming lobby and molded by it.

Rising higher education enrollment among women.

It's a recurring problem for these reporters.

They don't like talking to Republican Hill staffers, so they aren't talking to any of these staffers on background, so they are stuck running over to people who are not there to give a quote guessing what the thought process is currently like.

Correct, but they've never been a coherent ideological mission for millions of Democratic voters the way overturning Roe was for literally 40 years straight (in GOP national platform from 1984 until 2024, I believe.)

Would Democrats benefit from a left-wing FedSoc? It's unclear, but frankly its origins might be starting now. The left-wing Robert Bork could be in law school as we speak.

It reduced the taxes of middle class + mid-sized business interests, the core of GOP and Northern Whigs prior.

The ideological project isn't TCJA but the Federalist Society. That is context for why they will not coup the judiciary, and thus navigate rightist-liberal bounds firing govt. workers.

"Democrats voted together to pass a healthcare bill with carrots for almost every party constituency" is actually pretty coherent with arguing they're the less ideological party.

But the OP goes a step further and argues this is an obvious liability; not so clear that's the case.

"At one end of our hypothetical spectrum can be found Austrian clerical fascism, the Spanish Falange, and perhaps the conservative Catholic regime of Antonio de Oliviera Salazar in Portugal [...] At the other end of the spectrum stood the German Nazis and their vicious collaborators"

"The antagonism between Italy and Germany, for as long as it lasted, served to heighten a distinction between a civilized Latin fascism and a barbaric fascist movement that had reared itself north of the Alps."

Gottfried lists some additional factors that could back Gregor's ideological read after earlier mentioning an anti-clergy component to some Italian fascist theorists.

Gregor contrasted with Nolte again

"The interpretations of fascism proposed by James Burnham, Ernst Nolte, and Rudolf Hilferding were all shaped to some extent by the Marxist or Marxist-Leninist world view that these thinkers had adopted earlier."

"But efficiency is not what Gregor is looking at. Despite their economic ineptitude, fascists, wherever they arose, offered a workable, dirigiste alternative to communism."

Nolte takes the politics of post-colonial movements literally, and perhaps Gregor takes them seriously.

"Nolte suggests that the only Western country still capable of practicing “racial, continental fascism” after the fall of the Soviets is the American empire not only because of its periodic racial tensions but also because of the extent of American power."

"Gregor thought that fascism endangered liberal institutions precisely because it offered persuasive arguments about human nature, the economy, international relations, and the corruptness of parliamentary institutions."

Nolte's understanding overlaps quite a bit with the early Marxist theorizing of fascism as a strictly counterrevolutionary strategy.