トーマス・サドスキーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (トーマス・サドスキーInstagram)「Here’s the thing, any honest reading of the history of fascism will make very clear a few points: 1) fascism is very much on the march in these United States 2) no country, none, that suffered under the scourge of fascism believed it could happen there. They ALL believed the fascists who eventually seized and consolidated power and murdered with impunity were a relatively harmless minority of “nutjobs”. 3) every fascist movement claims first and foremost sole ownership of patriotism. Repost from @theintercept - Fascist and sectarian ideologies have found a home in the hearts of members of a new generation of Americans, writes Murtaza Hussain. ⁠ ⁠ Whether most people have connected the dots or not, a violent struggle is already playing out. Over the past few years, a steady drumbeat of massacres have been carried out by extremists associated with the new far-right. These attacks have targeted synagogues, mosques, and communities where immigrants are concentrated. In their wake, the shooters left behind manifestos damning a world that they claimed was shrinking in space for people like them.⁠ ⁠ What these ideologues have really been waiting for, however, is a real crisis, one that would give them an opportunity to put their ideas of racial warfare and ethnic purification into full effect. That crisis is here.⁠ ⁠ The combination of the coronavirus and the sudden collapse of the American economy has given society an exogenous shock unseen in generations. The pandemic and the social tensions it has unleashed are likely to supercharge the forces that gave rise to the new far-right extremism. ⁠ ⁠ Although some have yet to accept it, the U.S. is in the midst of an unstoppable cultural and demographic transition into multiculturalism. This demographic shift, though, has also given rise to serious anxieties that helped enable the rise of Trump. These majoritarian sentiments are likely to escalate. ⁠ ⁠ “For white nationalists, this is a crisis as well as an opportunity,” author Alexandra Minna Stern said. ⁠ ⁠ Read more via the link in our bio.⁠ ⁠ Photo: Michael Dwyer/AP⁠ ⁠ #whitenationalism #farrightextremism #trumpadministration⁠」7月14日 9時53分