Democracy in the Abstract Is an Unsustainable Strategy

"Social democracy is an unsustainable strategy anti-fascism," writes Julian Zelizer. "Defensive democracy in the abstract is a death march right you know if you can." The threat of fascism has pressed ganked armies of people who otherwise would be enemies of capitalism into protecting institutions that are inevitably going to bring these people back into power, he says. 'That's really grim because it means that something has to change or we're just going to come back here again and again'