Topic map here:
Trumpism-fascism is rooted in the system of capitalism-imperialism “interwoven [in Andy Zee’s words] with the history of this country” (the USA).
Fascist billionaires under Hitler and Trump & fascist Social Darwinian love for the super-rich.
William Robinson and Trump’s “transnational capitalist” billionaire fascism
Capitalism and the de-legitimization of “democracy.”
The American Minority Rule constitutional order and the de-legitimization of “democracy.”
The fascist base is not just an elite-manipulated working class. Racism, misogyny, nativism, and fundamentalist Christianity are deeply rooted in US American society going back to its origins.
Understanding white supremacy, sexism/patriarchy, and xenophobic nativism as dialectically bound up with American capitalism and Trumpism-fascism
The William Robinson interview: https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/william-robinson-trump-cant-represent-the-interests-of-workers-and-capital-at-the-same-time/
(Actually I should not pretend to know everything this prolific scholar thinks about the Trump base. I really just mean what he seems to think about that base on the basis of at least this essay).
The outlier Minority Rule nature of US bourgeois democracy: Paul Street, “The Tyranny of the Minority: A Marxist Appreciation and Critique,” https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/16/the-tyranny-of-the-minority-a-marxist-appreciation-and-critique/
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