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Given the historic description of the idea, why wouldn’t an American Fascist Government, instead take on the historic characteristics such as the following?

First, and essential to an new kind of American fascism, would include attempts to impose comprehensive regulations to further the interests of the state or centralized government. A single demanding statists initiative to enact further control of the healthcare system, the energy sector, and law enforcement.

This kind of government would demand a media uniformity and enforce a singular message against all free flows of contrary ideas. This would force the entire media establishment to be on the “same page.”

Third, an Americanized fascism would limit and condition the flow of information disseminated from all corporate powers, powers that include big tech, big pharma and big finance. The leaders of these corporate powers would fall in line with the statist agenda. This would manifest in a political party of ruling elites (both elected leaders and industry/corporate leaders) to maintain controlling power of all socio-economic agendas and disallow all dissent of the ruling party’s agenda.

Fourth, this kind of fascism would derive more and more controls to establish an ever-growing centralized power. This kind government must retain a power to limit all kinds of federalism or individual state representation. This centralized governmental will control and direct political, social, and economic agendas. It would fight to rid the system of traditional sources of democratic representation such as the electoral college, filibustering, and the number of jurists on the supreme court.

Fifth, this kind of fascism would fight for the adjudicating control of the state. Powerful statist agendas would fight to limit gun ownership, federalize the country’s voting laws, liberalize immigration policies, limit the reach of local law enforcement, transition from the traditional understandings of family, sexuality, etc.

Sixth, an American fascism would include the aggressive build-up of a military power, needed to maintain the demands for political and cultural liberalism. This kind of liberalism mut fortify a populist form of statism in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation. This kind of populism supports legalizing more drugs, an unregulated abortion agenda, etc.

Lastly, all vestiges an American individualism would necessarily be subordinated to identarian agendas. This kind of subordination would include the power to aggressively encourages people to retain identities within manufactured social constructs including such things as gender and race.

Again, the traditional understanding of fascism has always included abject contempt for electoral democracy, a demand for political and cultural liberalism, the belief in the rule of elites, and the desire to create a kind of people’s community, or a culture in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation.

We can’t pretend that this kind of agenda isn’t being imposed on the country now. The question is, are these descriptions more in league with traditional forms of fascism?

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