My parents grew up in Nazi Germany. I am grateful they did not live to see this day.
Up: Ur-Fascism
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### Where are we?
I am skeptical of binary distinctions in general. The question is not "Is the US in the grip of Ur-Fascism: yes or no?" It's "*How much* is the US in the grip of Ur-Fascism?" The answer could be "not enough to worry about" or "way, *way* too much for comfort" or "fully".
My answer, based on the thinking documented in Ur-Fascism is:
1. Is the societally dominant *attitude* toward self and other fascistic? **Yes**. 2. Are the actions of loci of power fascistic? **Pretty damn close**.
Fascists want to create a certain type of radical break with the past (though characterized by the cult of tradition as a return to the past). As of today, in America, they are on the brink of a success that will be reversed only with enormous suffering.
Important, I think, is both the attitude of the wannabe fascists (confident, even exuberant) and anti-fascists (confused, lacking in conviction, confidence, and hope). Obligatory Yeats 
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People have, for years, said "that's fascist" so often, in such marginal cases, as to have devalued the term. It became a marker of unseriousness or hysteria. I think we must now reject that habit. Clinging to that dismissiveness is intellectual unseriousness and moral cowardice.