Vance isn't a facist...

nor is Trump. Sure, Trump mobilized the same forces that any aspiring fascist would, but unless one uses the word to describe anything other than "someone I disagree with," then he isn't a fascist. The rise of rightwing populism is THE political story of our time and it's a global phenomenon. Some who have risen to power (Modi? Netanyahu?) probably fit a proper definition of "fascist"; others are just savvy political opportunists (Trump/Meloni/Wilders) who figured out how to mobilize the seething resentment against the globalized elites. Either way, the notion that, as kit I believe stresses, any plausible political order on the horizon (fascist to Melenchonesque far left) would waste a moment taking our interests into account or pass up a political opportunity to make scapegoats of us is living in a proverbial pipe dream. How, after all, did Kamela Harris start her rise to power? By going after and wrecking the lives of our brothers. SR