But Chris, fascism doesn't exist in the abstract, it exists in a social and political context. I would go farther than Charles (maybe) and say that U.S. fascism has racism as its outstanding, distinguishing characteristic because it is THE thing that can get a working-class base supporting austerity at home and empire abroad. Without it, they got nothing, or very little. Now perhaps you can forecast the emergence of a more sophisticated rainbow fascism in the U.S. but the only signs I see of that are attempts (fairly unsuccessful so far) to get whites and blacks all together hating Arabs and Mexicans. But hey, there are plenty of 'races' to hate and thus plenty of racism to encourage, as Primo Levi said, everyone is someone's Jew.
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