A Nation of Sociopaths? What the Trump Phenomenon Says About America

[Hortensis]

13. NO, not "humans," many conservative humans, but not even all of them.

Although fascism can take so-called left- or right-wing governing forms, social scientists say fascism is a conservative phenomenon. A hard-right conservative phenomenon.

Looking at it in action, Mussolini dissolved Italy's representative government and replaced it with a board of business executives. He also suppressed groups that Italy's social conservatives who supported him wanted didn't like. Persecution of selected minority groups is a characteristic of every fascist government studied.

As for liberals, Benito Mussolini once explained that they were incompatible with fascism because liberalism is the individual, fascism is the state. (Probably paraphrased slightly).

Although our right wingers do try to project fascism as liberal (it is seen as a bad word, even if most don't know what it means), one guess whose leaders are jailed and executed as necessary during the establishment of fascist governments.

Why is Scott Walker popping into my head as I write...?