American fascism is a deadly threat – it must be confronted now
American fascism is a deadly threat – it must be confronted now The US could yet fall apart under the strain of its structural racism and the dysfunctionality of its capitalism. Like grease from an old stove, the Nazis of the US are suddenly getting scoured off social media. Donald Trump’s Twitter account is gone. Parler has been scrubbed from the Amazon servers. We can be cynical about the motives of the tech giants: they did nothing to restrain either the Trump lie machine, or the fascist movement it inspired, until both looked beaten and discredited after 6 January. But ther...