Fascism concentrates economic power to achieve ideological goals, such as (in the 1930s) racial purity and conquest or (nowadays) gender equity and saving the planet. In Unherd, Joel Kotkin argues that the U.S. Democratic Party and corporate elite have joined into a new version of fascism.
Like the Twitching of a Dissected Frog’s Legs
The second Trump Administration is succeeding magnificently in driving DEI/wokist policies and ideology out of the U.S. government and any organization receiving federal funds, writes Roger Kimball at American Greatness. From the FBI cutting ties to the extreme-left Southern Poverty Law Center to newly named Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declaring the U.S. military to be no place for “dudes in dresses”, Kimball proclaims – perhaps a tad prematurely – that DEI in government is dead but just doesn’t know it yet.