The GOP goes for a clean sweep of Britt’s “Fourteen characteristics”
March 18th 2012
Back in 2003, Lawrence Britt wrote “The Fourteen Defining Characteristics of Fascism” (sometimes also titled “Identifiers: An Examination of Fascism”) That essay is posted below, and can be found here: http://fwd4.me/0wei.
The list seemed to fit the toxic right like a glove.
Mindless avid flag waving? Check.
Contempt for rights? Well, there’s tort reform, and hatred of “trial lawyers”. For starters. Endless sneers about “entitled minorities.”
Scapegoating? Can you say “Sharia law menace”? The Islamic threat? Liberals?
Worship the military? Check. I’ve even seen right wingers whining about how weak America will appear if they punish Robert Bale if he’s convicted of killing those sixteen Afghan civilians. Some right wingers think it’s an imposition that he even be tried.
