How to Stop Fascism (updated)

Five Lessons of the Nazi Takeover

As the United States hovers at the edge of fascism, the history of Germany can help.

To be sure, Americans have other histories to ponder, including their own.  Some American states, right now, are laboratories of authoritarian rule (and others are laboratories of resistance).  The American 1860s and American 1930s reveal tactics authoritarians use, as w…