Salon sums up the current Republican cabal as follows:
The Republican cabal tends to preach and practice
intolerance, xenophobia, nationalism and anti-democratic values (i.e.,
voter suppression). The Republican cabal is anti-enlightenment, and
embraces passion over reason. The dangerous denial of climate change and
other scientific facts seems to come out of the corrupt alliance of
anti-intellectual traditionalism and corporate influence (i.e., oil and
gas).
Now, the fact of the
matter is that
old fascism did not die in the mid-20th century it just slithered under a
rock. The Republican cabal are obviously neo-fascists, and share a
family resemblance. As stated above, the base
have many similar passions — traditionalism, nationalism, intolerance
towards immigrants or minorities. They react with hostility towards the
social progress of others and largely believe in a ‘survival of the
fittest’ ideology.
Giovanni Gentile, the “philosopher of
fascism” and ghostwriter for Mussolini, said of the definition of
fascism in the Encyclopedia of Italiana: “Fascism should more
appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and
corporate power.” This definition may very well fit the Republican cabal ideology: a
kind of corporate fascism, where large corporations have the ultimate
power; where the politicians spew a hateful, intolerant ideology based
on “traditional” values, on a platform funded by corporate interests,
elected by the people to serve those very corporate interests; and deny
environmental degradation because it would be unprofitable for the
funders to do anything about it, using the anti-intellectual hostility
to convince the people that it is nothing more than a left-wing
conspiracy.
To read the entire Salon article, click Trump is a fascist: What his surging popularity says about the Republican cabal base.
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