This is what happens if you work too hard through lunch...

"We are not required to believe that fascist movements can only come to power in an exact replay of the scenario of Mussolini and Hitler. All that is required to fit our model is polarization, deadlock, mass mobilization against internal and external enemies, and complicity by existing elites."

I've already written 1/16th of my next book, "Fin de Siècle to Fascism", about the origins of fascist ideology among the Decadents and aesthetes of fin-de-siècle France. Fascist scum, if you want to stay true to your roots, better start fluttering your wrists and donning your yellow carnations...

For Americans still wondering whether or how they should resist, may I recommend:
Gene Sharp, "From Dictatorship to Democracy"
The Federalist Papers #10, #51
John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"
Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/...

Where are you, America? The ManBaby-in-Chief's toadies won't protest this illegitimate, unconstitutional, self-maiming putsch: how about the rest of you? Where's the outrage, the denunciations, the resistance?
Democracy is never surrender to group folly. This house of cards can fall.
#trump

As someone with the dubious privilege of being paid to research the origins of fascism, let me stress that defeatism is giving comfort to the enemy - the worst thing you can do. A despot who exceeds his mandate has no legitimacy, democratic or otherwise. Resist now, so you don't have to later.

Happy to announce that I've just been contracted to write on the French Decadent movement in the Belle Epoque and its contribution to the ideological foundations of fascism. Tracts for the times...