After Election Day, the fascism scholar Jason Stanley offered a grim appraisal: “People who feel slighted (materially or socially) come to accept pathologies—racism, homophobia, misogyny, ethnic nationalism, and religious bigotry—which, under conditions of greater equality, they would reject. And it is precisely those material conditions for a healthy, stable democracy that the United States lacks today. If anything, America has come to be singularly defined by its massive wealth inequality, a phenomenon that cannot but undermine social cohesion and breed resentment.”
Excerpted from this article by Norman Solomon: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/hope-donald-trump
For Jason Stanley's excellent book How Fascism Works, please go here: https://www.amazon.com/How-Fascism-Works-Politics-Them/dp/0525511830
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