Part of me wonders, does the latest batch of fascists resemble the last batch of fascists in so many ways because these fascists are self-consciously mimicking the old fascists, or because there’s really only one way to do fascism?
I’m thinking of the Tolstoy quote: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Or the fact that nature keeps reproducing the crab form through convergent evolution over and over again. Maybe fascism is just this boring phenomenon that can only just retread the same tired cliches over and over again.