15 points
This ship set sail in 1992. I’ve been referencing this very checklist for at least 20 years when debating being dismissively yelled at by conservatives. Everybody thought I was nuts.
5 points
Fuck all the MAGA scum!
11 points
We’re way past the early warning signs.
9 points
Welcome to 2017.
14 points
A lot of these are perfectly naive.
It, for example, assumes that mass media wasn’t being controlled beforehand (it always is) and that corporate power wasn’t being protected beforehand (it always is).
Fascism is not some aberration of the liberal nation state - it’s a built-in feature of it.
8 points
This is a list of paragraph titles from the original magazine article, which offers some nuance.
