fascism 
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SOURCE: WBUR
4/26/2022
Women's Rights are a Casualty of Democratic Backsliding
Historian Anne Wingenter and law professor Erica Chenoweth discuss the relationship between fascism and patriarchy and the way that women's rights are a signal of the health of democracy.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
4/26/2022
Guernica Was a Dress Rehearsal for Horrors to Come
Journalist George Lowther Steer broke the news that the German Luftwaffe had provided the aerial destruction of the town, in what became a training ground for future Nazi attacks.
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SOURCE: World Socialist Website
4/25/2022
World Socialist Website: Tim Snyder Changes Conclusions on Ukrainian Fascism
Have influential historians of Eastern European nationalism and antisemitism softened their assessment of Ukrainian nationalism because of the Russian invasion?
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
4/25/2022
False Accusations of "Fascism" at Democrats, Like Those Biden Faces, are Nothing New
by Jon Marshall
Glenn Beck's accusation that Biden is leading a global elite cabal of fascists doesn't have to make sense when it spreads around the world on social media and cable TV.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/17/2022
Now is the Time to Revisit Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism
by Anne Applebaum
The political and economic supports for stability and prosperity in the developed world are more precarious than ever; the revival of authoritarianism that Arendt predicted may be at hand, making her work more vital than ever.
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3/6/2022
The Would-Be Czar's Dark Prophet
by Ed Simon
Vladimir Putin takes seriously the anti-liberal and neo-czarist philosophies of Aleksandr Dugin. Anyone who opposes his expansionist agenda must as well.
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SOURCE: New Statesman
3/3/2022
Sanctions are an Economic Weapon. Targeting Matters
by Nicholas Mulder
The Biden approach shows a reframing of economic sanctions from being a deterrent to being a non-military weapon of war. This has happened before, and history shows that sanctions against an aggressor nation can be expected to fail unless they are paired with aid to Ukraine.
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SOURCE: People's World
2/14/2022
Historians Urge Stronger Anti-Fascist Commitment or US Risks Following Weimar Germany
by Berry Craig
The coalition assembled by Donald Trump includes enough white nationalists, violent extremists, and anti-democracy ideologues that the Biden administration's faith in institutional protections may be insufficient to contain it through normal means.
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SOURCE: Truthout
1/28/2022
Fascism's "Legal Phase" is Here, and the Threat is Real
by William Horne
The authoritarian right has identified the institutional weak points in American institutions and is preparing to exploit them to seize power and excuse political violence. This happened before, with Jim Crow the result.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/20/2022
Trump's NPR Interview Shows the Hazard of Giving Him Airtime
by Federico Finchelstein
The history of fascism shows that it's a mistake for the news media to treat propagandists as honest actors. They'll exploit the free press to promote their ideas, but crush independent journalism at the first opportunity.
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SOURCE: MSNBC
1/9/2022
Tim Snyder: Degraded Integrity of Elections Threatens Democracy
“Democracy needs history, because history teaches you about your mistakes.”
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SOURCE: AlterNet
12/8/2021
Thomas Zimmer: One-Party Theocratic Authoritarian Takeover is a Real Risk
"I think the idea that Democrats could get the support of white conservative voters by focusing on governing well, by emphasizing “pocketbook issues,” underestimates the depth of the ideological struggle that we are witnessing."
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SOURCE: The Guardian
11/13/2021
Tim Snyder: "It Turns Out People Really Like Democracy"
“America first” and “enemies of the people” are words that are consciously applied by people who wish to destroy democracy. If people don’t know how those words have been applied in the past, then that is dangerous.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
11/17/2021
Can We Learn from Previous Collapses of Democracy?
by Katje Hoyer
The first German democracy, which was undone with the beginning of the first world war, is a cautionary tale of the potential of nationalism to undo democratic institutions.
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SOURCE: Public Books
9/14/2021
The Melting of the American Mind: Internet Pop Psychology and the Authoritarian Personality
by Maya Vinokour
The internet and social media have worked to normalize and validate authoritarian and illiberal worldviews, making the mindset that baffled thinkers like Theodor Adorno in 1947 commonplace today.
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8/29/2021
Richard J. Evans on Fascism, Today's Right, and Historical Truth
by Aaron J. Leonard
"Honest historians know they have to abandon their arguments when the evidence turns out to disprove them; dishonest historians and conspiracy theorists bend the evidence to fit the argument."
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SOURCE: CNN
8/5/2021
Why Tucker Carlson went to Hungary
by Nicole Hemmer
Tucker Carlson's PR visit to Orban's Hungary echoes the tribute paid by leaders of the American right to racist regimes in Rhodesia and South Africa in the 1970s, and reflect the ongoing fantasy of the right to rule free of constraints of law and democratic norms.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/3/2021
New Book of Family History Recreates the Anti-Nazi Resistance in Germany
Rebecca Donner, great-great-neice of Mildred Harnack, an American-born woman executed in 1943 for anti-Nazi activity in Germany, has written a book of family history that also shows the melting away of German delusions about Hitler's intentions and power.
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SOURCE: Heather Cox Richardson
8/2/2021
Letters from an American: The Rising Appeal of Hungary on the US Right
by Heather Cox Richardson
Tucker Carlson's fawning visit to Viktor Orban's Hungary, at a time when the right is mobilizing to subvert future American elections, is an ominous signal of the growing contempt for democracy on the right.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
7/13/2021
David Frum: There’s a Word for What Trumpism Is Becoming
"Why do people sign up with the putschists after the putsch has failed? They’re betting that the failed putsch is not the past—it’s the future."
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