DONALD TRUMP AND THE BANALITY OF FASCISM

Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.
4 min readOct 26, 2024

“Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans”. John T. Flynn

“When fascism comes to American it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross”. Sinclair Lewis

“The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us”. Michel Foucault

“Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place”. Ignazio Silone

“Fascism is capitalism plus murder”. Upton Sinclair

“What can men do against such reckless hate”, King Theoden (LOTR).

“Fascism is capitalism in decay”. Vladimir Lenin

“Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society. Fascism, a program for the social control of intellect”. Robert Pirsig

“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power”. Benito Mussolini

“The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism”. Henry A. Wallace

“Trump is America’s Hitler.” J.D. Vance

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Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.
Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

Written by Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

Top Economics Writer, Gov. service, corp consulting, & faculty posts (e.g., Mich., Stanford, British Columbia). Piles of scholarly pubs & occasional diatribes.