On 2010-02-07, at 8:35 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Feb 7, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:
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>> But the teabaggers are an incipient fascist movement
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> I really don't buy that. They're just a somewhat nuttier iteration of old American nonsense. It's like something out of Hofstadter come alive.
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Who was it that said that American fascism, if and when it appeared, would do so in the guise of good old fashioned "Americanism"? The German Nazis were also regarded at the outset as just a somewhat nuttier iteration of old Teutonic nonsense. And I wouldn't want to be misunderstood as seeing this movement as anything more than "incipient", t.b.d. by the course of the crisis.