At the end of WWI, Europe went from three republics to thirteen. There was a hustle and bustle to embrace constitutions and parliamentary government all amidst the economic, societal, and cultural ruin of a war that completely redefined the political lines of a region that had known little but authoritarian rule.
Russia’s response was Bolshevism and later Soviet Communism, whose early appeal took hold in cities across Europe. Rural areas and places with a strong connection to property or land ownership were resistant. Somewhere in the midst of that, fascism found a foothold. Initially, many viewed it as a compromise or perhaps even an improvement on both parlimentism and socialism. The problem with fascism, of course, is (like socialism) you need a police state to enforce centralized authority.
Fascism, like Marxism, is also intolerant of criticism or debate. It denied critics citizenship, suppressed opposition parties, restricted press freedoms, engaged in censorship, and denied civil rights. You could not speak freely as individual rights were increasingly restricted, and violence in defense of the state’s priorities was glorified and commended. Fascism even rejected political equality. The national government and the interests of its leadership became the only defining factor of life under fascism, and only one party mattered.
Of what does that remind you? The modern ruling class as led by Democrat party leadership.
They call Trump Hitler as much as they’d like- fish for examples or comparisons. Cherry-pick words and meanings. I wrote an entire substack about this projection. For all their mindless chatter, the closest modern comparison we have to fascism is the Biden-Harris administration. And we’ve seen what America looks like under Donald Trump. Absent fabricated media and Dem party outrage, it was prosperous. Everyone had better job opportunities and more money in their pockets, and the economy thrived. Our enemies stood down, and our allies (even if begrudgingly respected us. Peace was preferable to war, diplomacy preferable to violence.
What violence there was came from the left. It still does. And that won’t stop, even if they fail to retain power. It is who they are. They are fascists whose ant-fascist faction is Marxist—two peas in the same totalitarian pod. There is no liberty or peace with either. The economy cannot prosper, speech will be retrained, and violence will inevitably find you on the street or in a uniform.
That is the only promise they can make, and they never can because if they did, you’d never vote for them again. So they lie. They paint their opponents as themselves and hope you care too little to notice. But more people are noticing. Rank and file Democrats have seen it. Minorities are seeing it. Women are beginning to notice. Is it enough?
