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Donald Trump’s fascistic rhetoric about how immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the country, as well as the GOP’s embrace of the Great Replacement theory, are repellent to many Americans. But for a startling number of people, new survey results exclusively provided to Rolling Stone reveals, the message that immigrants pose a dark threat to the nation is being met with enthusiasm — or a dangerous shrug of indifference. More than a third of Trump’s 2020 voters — 35 percent — agree with Trump’s claim, parroted…

On Feb. 20, 1939, more than 20,000 yelling, cheering people packed New York City’s Madison Square Garden. They weren’t there for a basketball game or a concert. They were supporters of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization that was ready for an alternative to democracy. They waved Swastika flags and raised quite a ruckus. And they were hardly alone in their mission, as the new PBS American Experience documentary Nazi Town, USA makes abundantly clear. While most Americans identified fascism and the…

The great Norman Lear passed away on December 5th at the age of 101. Over his eight-decade career in showbiz, the television wizard developed over 100 shows, many of which presented a more idealistic vision for America: All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, Diff’rent Strokes. Lear’s shows tackled hot-button issues like racism, sexuality, misogyny, and abortion with brutal honesty, thrusting important conversations into the cultural zeitgeist, while remaining…

Posted in: Comics, Current News | Tagged: Alan Moore, brazilRecently, Alan Moore held an audience with the Scottish Book Trust, hosted by Heather Parry. And talked about magic, fascism and Brazil.Article Summary Alan Moore discusses magic as a sophisticated worldview that shapes his creative process. Magic, Moore asserts, can empower individuals to effect real-world change and combat fascism. Moore, tongue in cheek, claims a personal victory in influencing Brazil's election, humorously dubbing himself…

Last fall, just blocks from my apartment in Cambridge, Mass., a gang of neo-Nazis gathered in Harvard Square on a Sunday afternoon. Videos showed a group of masked white men shouting, spitting, cursing homophobic slurs and chest-thumping at students. They were part of the Nationalist Social Club, a local neo-Nazi outfit, nicknamed the “131 Crew,” as if it were a sneaker collective and not a gang.In researching the rise of the fascist movement in the United States, I have found troubling parallels to 1930s Italy and…

In a world where rhetorical gaffes can get you fired, you might imagine that corporate executives would be careful about the stuff they put in company emails. Instead, no, a lot of leaders just seem to say whatever comes into their heads (or ask robots to write their emails for them).Consider the case of Claudio Anastasio, the now-former head of 3-I, a state-run software company from Italy. Anastasio, who was appointed last November by Italy’s far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, recently took it upon himself to do…

When Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers originally hit cinemas in 1997, the reviews were scathing. The Los Angeles Times’ Kenneth Turan argued that the Dutch director of Robocop, Total Recall and Basic Instinct had delivered a space flick “rigorously one-dimensional and free from even the pretense of intelligence”, even suggesting that the film-maker had preserved the “fascist utopianism” of the 1959 Robert A Heinlein novel that it had been based on. “Troopers takes us to a militaristic future where video bulletins…

Alan Moore has hit out at “infantile” adults who are fans of superhero movies, warning that it can often lead to “fascism”.The British author and creator of DC’s Watchmen comic book series has long been vocal about his disdain for superhero films, once labelling them as a “blight” to cinema. Now, in a new interview with The Guardian, Moore has gone a step further to specifically criticise older fans of the genre. “I said ’round about 2011 that I thought that it had serious and worrying implications for the future if…

Watchmen creator Alan Moore believes that "infantile" love for comic book superheroes could be a precursor to fascism. In an interview with The Guardian, the legendary comic writer, regarded for his work on Batman: The Killing Joke and V for Vendetta, expressed concerns about our culture's obsession with superheroes. Moore believes comic books were always targeted at young boys, and were never meant to be “adult fare.” He does admit to sharing the blame though, as mature-themed stories like Watchmen, written by Moore…

Mark Cousins’s dynamic and entirely arresting documentary essay, with his distinctive collage of photos, clips and narrative voiceover, returns us to the grisly founding myth of European fascism for its 100th birthday: Benito Mussolini’s March on Rome in 1922: his ragged march of blackshirts from Naples to the capital.On their arrival, and in the face of the marchers’ supposed fascist might, Italy’s abysmal King Victor Emmanuel III simply outdid Chamberlain in timidity, overruled his prime minister Luigi Facta and…