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The explosiveness of the migration issue in Italy is perhaps best seen in Macerata, a medieval town near the Adriatic Coast.CreditDmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times MACERATA, Italy — At the end of his shooting rampage as the police closed in, Luca Traini climbed the steps of a Fascist-era monument, wrapped himself in an…
Photo: Getty Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum, a “liberal” blogger who thinks you’d be “crazy” if you don’t have a “reflexive disgust of the homeless,” did a take today on liberals supposedly “defending” MS-13, the gang which Donald Trump is now calling full of “animals” every chance he gets. It was terrible. The impetus for Drum’s…
Marvel Mjolnir, Thor’s magical hammer forged by dwarven blacksmiths out of the enchanted metal uru, has a history of being picky about who can pick it up. If the hammer thinks a person is worthy of its power, hefting it’s no big deal. So how the hell the Hydra fascist formerly known as Captain America,…
Banner Image In stark contrast with many liberals, antifa activists refuse any dialogue with Trumpism. Anti-Racist Action protesting neo-Nazis holding anti-immigration rally in Smith County, Texas. (AP Photo / Tyler Morning Telegraph, Tom Turner) To call Trumpism fascist is to suggest that it demands from us a unique response. We can deploy the “fascism” moniker…
Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch founded and led a student group called the ‘Fascism Forever Club’ at his elite high school, DailyMail.com can reveal. The club was set up to rally against the ‘left-wing tendencies’ of his professors while attending a Jesuit all-boys preparatory high school near Washington D.C. The name may be inconvenient…
Neo-Nazis met in Washington, D.C., last week to celebrate Donald Trump‘s presidential victory and proclaim that their time has come. Video captured by the Atlantic shows the group using Nazi salutes and shouting “Heil!” to the president-elect’s victory. Punching Nazis, otherwise known as “fash-bashing,” is part of a long, storied tradition of anti-fascist violence, carried…
With the election of Donald Trump, the latent threat of American authoritarianism—identified decades ago by German intellectuals—is on the verge of being realized. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY DAMON WINTER / THE NEW YORK TIMES / REDUX Barrier Status: ‘none’ Shortly after the Presidential election, a small piece of good news came over the wire: the Thomas Mann…