is this fascism?
"As the historian Ian Kershaw says, trying to define fascism is ‘like trying to nail jelly to a wall’, yet for all its slipperiness, ‘fascism’ describes a uniquely destructive force in politics, and one for which we don’t have a better word. Unlike other forms of authoritarianism, such as military dictatorship, if left unchecked it is not only murderous but suicidal. Interwar fascism involved millions of people in the effort to purify national communities, initiating a spiral of violence that led to war, genocide and self-immolation. Its devastating potential was rooted in the paradoxical promise of a revolution carried out in defence of hierarchy." ..." ‘Disaster nationalism’ is Seymour’s term for the political expression of these feelings. It arises, he writes, from the ‘profound unhappiness accumulated in the era of peak liberalism’ and offers the afflicted a range of enemies whose defeat will restore ‘the traditional consolations of family, race, religion and nationh...
