Check out this amazing interview with Chris Hedges about his new book American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. I haven't read this yet, but it's on my amazon wish list right next to his book War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning.
It's particularly good how he explains the danger of a prolonged crisis (like a war on terrorism) in catapulting this group from the margins to the centers of power. He's just a fantastically articulate man
The similarities between certain factions in American politics today with fascism seems to be coming up a lot. Also on my amazon wish list, is John Dean's Conservatives Without Conscience, which as I understand it also traces out the shift in right wing politics since the days of Barry Goldwater towards what he might characterize as a proto-fascism.
So many books to read so little time.
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