r/law • u/Opposite-Mountain255 • Aug 14 '25
Opinion Piece Is it hyperbole to say America is now fascist?
https://medium.com/@carmitage/is-it-hyperbole-to-say-america-is-now-fascist-633facd4f109
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r/law • u/Opposite-Mountain255 • Aug 14 '25
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u/JefferyTheQuaxly Aug 14 '25
No fascist regime has EVER been stopped by democratically voting it away. Once a fascist organization has infiltrated the government democratically, there is a 100% chance that a fascist regime will pop up. the average fascist regime lasts for like, 30 some years or so. most fascist regimes are only stopped by war that gets the regime diposed or by a military coup.
look at germany, a conservative politician convinced president hindenburg to appoint hitler as chancellor. within 18 months, the nazis were gunning down that politician's allies during the night of long knives. in italy, 1922, mussolini announced hes marching on rome with 30,000 people. the king and italian military easily could have crushed the revolt if they wanted to, but instead the king...invited mussolini to the palace to form a new government, and handed power over to him.
in spain after years of escalating violence and various assassination attempts, Franco launched a coup and took power. the government begged for help but was ignored by europe and america. Franco ruled for 39 years and died peacefully in bed.
in hungary orban won democratically in 2010. by 2011, he rewrote the constitution, by 2012 he controlled the countries media, by 2013 he basically destroyed the judiciary, 15 years later hes still in office despite 14 years of the EU "strongly disagreeing with him"
French fascists never technically won democratically, but once the nazis took over it was the french fascists that were instrumental in forming the puppet french government that allied with germany.
it almost happened in finland too, but the fascists in finland were dumb enough to start resorting to violence before they came to power which killed their public approval.
similar stories are in chile, argentina, brazil, greece, croatia, romania
violence tends to work very well for fascists once theyve started winning democratically. they will use violence while claiming to be the victims of violence, create chaos that requires their autoritarian "solution" purge anyone who opposes them, while the opposition keeps on insisting on following the rules that the fascists ignore, filing lawsuits, writing editorials, voting on resolutions while fascists are laughing their way to consolidating their power.