In an interview with NBC News, Tom Homan described how protests in Los Angeles have affected Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in recent days.
they’re LARPing as fascists doing fashy things, but they’re not operating under the same level of competence that more successful fascist regimes do
Actually, “successful” fascist regimes don’t tend to be anywhere near as efficient as history teaches us.
A combination of their own propaganda persisting in spite of being debunked (for example the trains in Mussolini’s Italy did NOT in fact tend to run on time) and a natural tendency in humans to conflate monstrous ruthlessness with efficiency means that historical fascists get a lot of unearned credit.
Being stupid and incompetent ISN’T inherently incongruous with being fascist.
In spite of the dominant narratives of both themselves and their opponents, fascism often if not always contain kakistocratic elements as “true believer” isn’t synonymous with “truly cunning and effective”
Conclusion: the Trump regime IS a fascist regime by any objective criteria, none of which is “everyone is competent”
Actually, “successful” fascist regimes don’t tend to be anywhere near as efficient as history teaches us.
A combination of their own propaganda persisting in spite of being debunked (for example the trains in Mussolini’s Italy did NOT in fact tend to run on time) and a natural tendency in humans to conflate monstrous ruthlessness with efficiency means that historical fascists get a lot of unearned credit.
Being stupid and incompetent ISN’T inherently incongruous with being fascist.
In spite of the dominant narratives of both themselves and their opponents, fascism often if not always contain kakistocratic elements as “true believer” isn’t synonymous with “truly cunning and effective”
Conclusion: the Trump regime IS a fascist regime by any objective criteria, none of which is “everyone is competent”