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Jason Stanley, <i class="">How Fascism Works</i>: The Politics of Us and Them (Random House, 2018, 218 pages). </div>
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The initial move in nascent fascism is usually a matter of identifying some group as troublemakers & the “root cause” of all our problems. Current favorites include: immigrants, refugees, aliens, criminals, liberals, neoliberals, Deep State, Jews, anti-Semites,
Republicans, Democrats, warmongers, War Party, racists, white males, pro-choice murderers, etc. </div>
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Also see his earlier book:</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span><i class="">How Propaganda Works</i> (Princeton U.P., 2015, 353 pages). </div>
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> Stanley is a professor of philosophy at Yale.</div>
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And compare: </div>
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David Neiwert, <i class="">The Eliminationists</i> : How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right (PoliPoint Press, 2009, 281 pp.) Esp. chapters 6 & 7, “Understanding Fascism” & “Proto-Fascism, Para-Fascism, and the Real Thing,” pp. 103—147. </div>
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Bertram Gross, <i class="">Friendly Fascism</i> : The New Face of Power in America (M. Evans & Co., 1980, 410 pages). </div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Note: Published 38 years ago and an astonishing anticipation of much that has happened since. Mentions Sinclair Lewis’s novel<i class=""> It Can’ t Happen Here</i> (1935).</div>
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