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COMMENT: An edi­to­r­i­al in The Guardian pro­vides an inter­est­ing rhetor­i­cal insight into the onset of fas­cism (not “author­i­tar­i­an­ism,” as the paper and oth­er cow­ard­ly insti­tu­tions insist on call­ing it).

Step back and take it in: the US is enter­ing full author­i­tar­i­an mode | Jonathan Freed­land | The Guardian

. . . If this were hap­pen­ing some­where else – in Latin Amer­i­ca, say – how might it be report­ed?  Hav­ing secured his grip on the cap­i­tal, the pres­i­dent is now set to send troops to sev­er­al rebel-held cities, claim­ing he is want­ed there to restore order. The move fol­lows raids on the homes of lead­ing dis­si­dents and comes as armed men seen as loy­al to the pres­i­dent, many of them masked, con­tin­ue to pluck peo­ple off the streets . . . . 

. . . . To adapt the title of that long-ago nov­el, it can hap­pen here – and it is.