Source: CounterPunch
by Jeffrey St. Clair
“So, here we are on the precipice. Not just CounterPunch, but the country, even the 30% who refuse to believe it. Indeed, we may well be off the precipice, suspended in air above the chasm, like Wile E. Coyote, as the icy grip of gravity takes hold, pulling us down into political darkness. Is that dark pit we’re being dragged into ‘fascism?’ I’m reluctant to use that word to describe the retrograde policies and savage tactics of the Trump regime. There’s no reason to import a European ideology from the last century to explain a domestic political pathology that can be traced back to the origins of the Republic. In fact, what if we’re entering a dispensation that’s even worse than ‘fascism?’ Worse, you say? What could be worse than fascism?” (10/24/25)