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communistkenobi · 1 year ago

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It reminds me of why the stop the steal people lost their legal challenges to Biden’s election. It’s not that it’s impossible for right wing people to use legal architecture to halt democratic processes (cf Bush v Gore), it’s that they did it in an openly stupid and nonsensical way. In terms of American fascism I think the lessons they’re learning re: interacting with institutional power is that they can’t use twitter posting tactics in the courtroom

#I don’t know how salient this analysis is because like also america is a well developed fascist state in many ways #like in terms of large scale fascistic processes those things are already finely honed #but there’s a particularly unstable element being expressed domestically #eg qanon stop the steal unite the right etc etc #that seems to be losing legal battles not because fascism is structurally excluded from those processes #but that they aren’t being sophisticated with their legal challenges #I mean I guess also another conclusion to be made is that this is just the logical output of a well developed fascist state #you are going to get these fantastical spasms of reactionary violence and legal resistance at home #as stupid and ineffectual as it appears to be #like these are also in a sense the ‘new normal’ of an openly fascist state #anyway these are messy thoughts not fully formed. the more I learn about this topic the less I feel like I actually know

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