342 / Jumping The Gap / John Halstead
Last Born In The Wilderness
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The Rise of the Far Right in the US
Fascism is a response to a crisis of meaning, you know, it emerges in different forms in different ways. Each nation or society is going to have its own kind of characteristics that make their form of fascism unique like the fascism of the 21st century in the United States is not the fascism of Nazi Germany in the 20th century. It's worth acknowledging that when speaking of historical parallels here when the Nazi party was coming into power there were several groups that were targeted before they actually targeted Jewish people and other groups where they targeted non binary queer communities trans people. They also targeted one of the biggest obstacles to the gaining power was the left. Once they were kind of dealt with, then
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