In many ways, Agenda 47 is a continuation of the fascist and other authoritarian policies Trump put in place during his first regime but now made even more extreme and cruel. [...]I asked Paul Mason, who is author of the book "How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance" for his thoughts about Trump's Agenda 47 and the mainstream new media and political class's failure to take it seriously. Dud city building projects in the desert, the expulsion of homeless people to tent cities, the pardon of fascist insurrectionaries and a year-long funfair… it's like a politics designed around video-game fantasies. The good news is, it's a signal of how detached Trump is even from the libertarian-turned-fascist wing of the American tech elite. It lacks any sense of realism even about the agenda they want - massive deregulation and the marketisation of public services.

Source: New York Times December 19, 2023 08:33 UTC