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    "text": "Important piece from Kevin Elliott.  Yes, it's Actually Fascism.",
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            "alt": "It thus matters enormously whether the new Trump regime is fascist or simply authoritarian. Authoritarianism is mainly about the structure of power in government. That means government lacks effective checks & balances and, as a result, there’s an intense concentration of power in the executive. Whatever formal title the leader has—general secretary, prime minister, president—he (it’s almost always a he) can get his way over the will of any other actor or institution in government. Most importantly, however, state power in an authoritarian regime is unaccountable to the mass public, meaning for instance that incumbents can’t lose elections even if the people want them gone. \n\nThe place to look for fascism is in the politics and program of a political movement; it’s about how they talk and what they aim to do rather than in the structure of power. Of course, they want the authoritarian structure of executive-focused unchecked power and seek to build it where it’s lacking. But this is in service of the core fascist mission: a cultural rebirth in which the nation, understood as its (racially) pure or ‘true’ people, is saved from destruction and its enemies are purged from within. ",
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            "alt": "The authoritarian agenda of the Trump regime is apparent in the unilateral abolition of federal agencies, illegal firings, the targeting of internal checks such as inspectors general and anti-corruption offices, intimidation of judges, general executive aggrandizement and unilateralism seen in the flood of Executive Orders, violation of court orders in spirit or substance, and, above all, the seizure of the power of the purse in impoundment. \n\nThe fascist agenda of the Trump regime is found in its multi-front war on civil society—stretching from extortionate civil cases, official investigations, and sanctions imposed against the media, to the intimidation of powerful law firms, to stripping funding from civil society groups and universities, to targeting universities for alleged civil rights violations—its lawless deportation actions, and its total war on diversity and affirmative action initiatives not just in the federal government but among every federal contractor and grantee or grant applicant across American society. Jamelle Bouie identifies this latter part of the agenda as a concerted effort to impose resegregation, revealing the unique Americanness of this Trumpian variant of fascism. ",
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