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The Populism to Fascism Pipeline
Parsing Populism and Umberto Eco’s eternal fascism (part 1 of 3)
The populism to fascism pipeline
The results of the recent United States election has many people, myself included, wondering how we — North America — got here. A presidential candidate has openly expressed , and has been accused of by of his staff, yet was still elected to the most powerful political office in the world.
Here in Canada our largely now-unpopular Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, finally , after months of his own party publicly expressing their lack of confidence in his leadership. A very weak Liberal party leaves Canada incredibly vulnerable to electing a Conservative government with as their leader, a man who doesn’t know the difference between a neoliberal and a communist, and has an extremely poor grasp of (among many other politically important concepts).
The focus of this article will be the slippery slope from populism to fascism, as such I won’t delve into the laundry list of allegations and crimes which follow the American president-elect, nor do I wish to spend any more time thinking or writing about…
