In a time-honored tradition that is far older than I am (36 years), we are just over two weeks out from Election Day and have fully committed to losing our minds as a country.
One of the current talking points being kicked into overdrive by people who are losing their already staticky connection to reality is the idea that a second Trump administration would mean the rise of fascism in America would be complete. It is a claim accompanied by the insane ramblings of those who feel mildly inconvenienced by the very idea of Donald Trump, and usually lacks any historical context whatsoever.
Take former AFL-CIO political director Michael Podhorzer, who wrote such a screed on Substack.
One of the most puzzling questions of the cycle is how, with less than three weeks to go to Election Day, polling shows the race in a dead heat despite Trump’s obvious unfitness for office and authoritarian…
