The Holocaust and American Fascism

The Third Reich saw their task in Europe as being akin to what America had done in the West, clear the land of the native and set up a new society on the land. And I think that also I think that affinity is still there to be found in American fascism because a lot of it is the reiteration of the ideology, scientific racism, justified imperialism which was formulated in manifest destiny. There's a kind of utopianism that carries over from, for instance, the 1960s, from the hippie movement. And then it finds itself re-encoded via Christian post rapture utopianism, the kingdom of heaven and so on.

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