What is fascism?

That’s a word that gets tossed about a fair bit, fascism.

But what does it mean?

Nobody seems to know. The old school guys want to direct you to Gramsci’s prison notebooks, but I wouldn’t recommend that… unless you’re in prison too and have as much time to read them as Tony had to write them.

We’ve been hearing the word more often since the advent of the Trump era. A lot of folks who never gave the question of fascism any thought pre-Trump suddenly got woke and realized America was in the clutches of a fascist dictatorship.

Or almost.

Or something…

They’re not wrong, but it’s got little or nothing to do with white supremacist 45 sitting in the White House today. Number 44 wasn’t much different when measured by policy outcomes.

So what is fascism?

Not sure, but when the interests of FacebookTwitterGoogle align so perfectly with the interests of the war profiteers at BoeingLockheedMartin, and when the guy who owns the Washington Post does hundreds of millions in business with the CIA, maybe us aging radicals should lay off the ganja for a spell and try and make some sense of this all.

It’s not looking good.