FULL FRONTAL FASCISM: What is Really at Stake in the Trump Trial

“What’s all this about? Some have said: it’s about Trump not being above the law….. In fact, as an observer, a witness, and a scholar of social collapse, something much worse is afoot here. It’s not just about demagogues being above the law. It’s about demagogues becoming the law.” Umar Haque

“So, reading the vibes, it looks like the defenses are going to be: (1) Criminal conspiracies involve speaking, therefore something something First Amendment, and (2) Yes, but can you prove that deep in my heart I didn’t believe the car I hotwired was really mine somehow?” Julian Sanchez

“Those who can get you to believe absurdities can get you to commit atrocities.” Voltaire

“No case in our system of justice could more directly and fundamentally address the stakes of American democracy and the rule of law”. Jeannie Suk Gersen

“A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.” Henry A. Wallace (VP to FDR).

In the 10+ years I was completing my latest book on the neofeudal undercurrents in our modern economic institutions, especially finance (https://www.amazon.com/SERFS-FInance-Feudalism-Fascism-Ruminations/dp/1796405728), whenever someone asked “how it was going”, I would tell them I still hoped to…