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Mar. 16th, 2003 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bryantOver the course of the last couple of months, David Neiwert has been writing a series of articles entitled "Rush, Newspeak and facism" on the potential for fascism in the United States. He's a journalist who has extensive experience in this field; his articles are well worth your time. I don't really have anything to say about these, which makes me a bad blogger, but sometimes you just have to pass along the important links.
- Part 1: a discussion of the nature of fascism.
- Part 2: why the left shouldn't abuse the term "fascist."
- Part 3: more on what fascism really means, and the "Patriot" movement.
- Part 4: the Patriot movement as proto-fascism.
- Part 5: how the memes of the Patriot movement are transmitted to mainstream thought.
- Part 6: Bush's relationship with the religious right.
- Part 7: more on transmitters -- the people who carry ideas from the extreme right into the mainstream.
- Part 8: political and religious transmitters, from Trent Lott to James Traficant to Pat Robertson.
- Part 9: media transmitters who pick up the rhetoric of the Patriot movement and make it palatable.
- Part 10: why Limbaugh's tactics work and how they pull the mainstream right towards the extreme.
- Part 11: the fringe doesn't look like the fringe, and can't be assumed to be marginal.
- Part 12: a case study in Kalispell, Montana and a call to arms.
