Not that camera crews were much of a deterrent to police brutality. In Cleveland, officials attempted to ban any journalists from traveling downtown to the heart of the protests. Again.” Further upstate in Columbus, Ohio, cops pepper-sprayed Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, along with other elected officials. flag (which they said had been taken by looters) with their own gang colors, a Thin Blue Line banner the city council chairman blasted that move as insensitive, saying the sheriff “has only made things worse. At a complex in Cincinnati, county sheriff’s deputies replaced the U.S. In Philadelphia on Sunday morning, the first thing the authorities cleaned up was a statue of former police commissioner and Mayor Frank Rizzo, a race-baiting demagogue who spent his life pitting white residents against everyone else. The country has entered a moment in which the frog notices it is getting boiled. He could be describing the rise of online Trumpism, packaged and Taylorized by the Republican Party apparatus, buttressed by the right-wing media ecosphere and its funders, all in the service of an authoritarian gangster state, which reached an important stage of fascist maturity in the streets of dozens of cities last weekend.
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“There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People,” he wrote. “They” are totalitarian death cults, but specifically alien ones-to be kept away from our superior shores, and occasionally to be vanquished by our incomparable military.Įco knew better, and he had America’s number, even in the world wide web’s infancy. It’s obvious who “They” are, isn’t it? Hitler and the Nazis, of course, and perhaps Islamist terrorists. To many Americans-mostly white Americans-Eco’s question has long felt academic. “We are here to remember what happened and solemnly say that ‘They’ must not do it again,” he wrote.
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“ It would be so much easier, for us, if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying, ‘I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Black Shirts to parade again in the Italian squares.’ Life is not that simple.” Eco, the great theorist and novelist, had been an adolescent in northern Italy under Mussolini’s fascist regime, and half a century later, as ultranationalist demagoguery and violence were set aflame by the Cold War’s last European embers, he began to wonder how to recognize, and mobilize against, a nascent fascist regime. “Ur-Fascism is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes,” Umberto Eco wrote in 1995.