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If there is one sacrosanct principle in the American society, it's that the so called elites — or rich people — absolutely under no circumstances can be declared "deplorables" in the polite society, which extends to their ideologies. When tomorrow JD Vance or Elon Musk publicly declare themselves fascists, then "How dare you to use the F word" commentariat of today will seamlessly switch to opinions "It is time to revisit fascism. Have we been brainwashed by Allies' propaganda?"

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Yes, ideologically accurate, but I believe what we have is best seen as good old fashioned 19th century reactionary European ideology transplanted to the early 21st century in a colonial settler mode, rather than as early 20th century fascism.

Classical fascism also carried over that same 19th century ideology, and certainly featured settler colonialism, but its historical and geopolitical proximity to the 19th century meant that fascism was a much more organic extension of that century. In addition, there was the specific shock of the military defeat of the old Central European landlord aristocracies who commanded those defeated armies, then also confronted with the specter of "Bolshevism" on their eastern flank. This included Italy, who suffered humiliating military defeats in that war and who got nothing from the peace. See "The Persistence of the Old Regime", Arno Mayer, for the state of the old European ruling class before WW1.

None of those specific conditions obtain in either Europe or North America, the latter with no legacy of a post-feudal landlord aristocracy. Instead the dead "tradition" is that of European settler colonialism and the enslavement of non-Europeans. That featured the white European settler patriarch fathering 12 kids with his household female chattel enslaved to this task - Elon Musk has literally 12 kids via 3 women, and his space fantasies are also an expression of settler colonialism.

This pro-natalism is the core of today's transplanted reactionary ideology. It demands the collective re-enslavement of primarily white women into a collective matrix dedicated to pumping out more white babies. It's that disgustingly brutal.

For Europe is in sharp demographic decline (but so is East Asia, so go figure), while North America is relatively underpopulated by current world standards. North American capitalism could use more cheap labor, and the rational way to supply it is through immigration. But that will not come from Europe, and therefore immigration will not bring "its best people", accelerating the gradual shift of the social basis from white to non-white, eroding also the traditional social base of the Republican Party, sending this to its historical doom. That's what the hysteria is all about.

So it is no accident that the leading ideologues are wealthy white South Africans. Worse yet, the most rapidly growing demographic is in West Africa! Specters of a Black Planet! Revenge of the enslaved!

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