Yes, It's Fascism - America now meets the 18 criteria

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Sam Harris | #456 - American Fascism

Sam Harris speaks with Jonathan Rauch about the emergence of fascism in American politics.

Sam Harris speaks with Jonathan Rauch about the emergence of fascism in American politics. They discuss Rauch’s article, “Yes, It’s Fascism,” the 18 criteria of fascism, the glorification and unapologetic use of state violence, “might is right” foreign policy, the politicization of law enforcement, the complicity of the rich and powerful, blood and soil nationalism, the influence of Carl Schmitt, the resilience of American institutions, and other topics. Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, is the author of eight books and many articles on public policy, culture, and government. He is a contributing writer for The Atlantic and recipient of the 2005 National Magazine Award, the magazine industry’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book, published in 2021 by the Brookings Press, is [_The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth_](https://amzn.to/4qdoa9d), a spirited and deep-diving account of how to push back against disinformation, canceling, and other new threats to our fact-based epistemic order. Jonathan’s Atlantic article, “[Yes, It’s Fascism](

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Yes, It’s Fascism

Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

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Yes, It's Fascism - America now meets the 18 criteria \ stacker news

Sam Harris speaks with Jonathan Rauch about the emergence of fascism in American politics. They discuss Rauch’s article, “Yes, It’s Fascism,�...

Florida Tourism Collapse: Trade War with Canada Impact Ouch! 280,000 jobs and $52 billion in lost revenue in just one state, due to soured relations with Canada. Decades of relationships erased in a year. FTA: > For Florida workers, the consequences were immediate and personal. Service sector wages stagnated as labor demand collapsed. Healthcare access declined as private clinics closed. Working-age residents began leaving the state altogether, accelerating population churn and weakening consumer demand even further. What began as a tourism shock evolved into a labor market crisis. > … > Tourist tax revenues collapsed by as much as 50% in some jurisdictions. Infrastructure projects were frozen. School districts cut programs. Emergency reserves were drained at record speed. This was the moment the illusion ended: Florida was not experiencing a downturn—it was confronting the consequences of a trade war that transformed consumer trust into a strategic fault line. > > The fiscal consequences are compounding. Property tax shortfalls are forcing counties to raise rates on remaining residents, accelerating affordability crises. School districts face chronic underfunding as tourism-linked revenues fail to recover. Infrastructure maintenance is deferred, not delayed. Deferred maintenance becomes decay. Decay drives further out-migration. The feedback loop tightens. > > Internal planning models used by regional development agencies indicate that even under the most optimistic assumptions, no more than 30% of former Canadian winter spending is projected to return over the next decade. That implies a structural loss of roughly $35 to $40 billion in annual economic activity. This is not a recessionary dip—it is a reset. The scale is comparable to the long-term decline of a major industrial sector, except this collapse did not originate from global competition or automation. It originated from political miscalculation. > … > That mismatch explains why the United States failed to anticipate the scale of damage now unfolding across Florida and other tourism-dependent regions. Policymakers focused on factories, ports, and export balances while ignoring a far larger vulnerability: services, consumer trust, and allied behavior. Tourism was classified as discretionary, apolitical, and resilient. That assumption proved catastrophically wrong. > > In reality, Canadian travel to the United States functioned as a fo

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Florida Tourism Collapse: Trade War With Canada Impact

Explore how the trade war with Canada led to 280,000 job losses and $52 billion in economic damage to Florida's tourism sector.

Germany urged to repatriate £122bn in gold from Trump’s ‘risky’ America https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/25/germany-urged-to-repatriate-122bn-in-gold-from-america/

Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos: the rules-based international order is over The full (and translated) text of the address is available [here](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-speech-davos-rules-based-order-9.7053350). So many bangers in this speech: > Let me be direct: We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. > > Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. > > But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons. Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructure as coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. > > You cannot "live within the lie" of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination. ... > And pragmatic in recognizing that progress is often incremental, that interests diverge, that not every partner will share our values. So we're engaging broadly, strategically, with open eyes. We actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be. > > We are calibrating our relationships so their depth reflects our values. And we're prioritizing broad engagement to maximize our influence, given the fluidity of the world order, the risks that this poses, and the stakes for what comes next. ... > Middle powers must act together because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu. > > But I'd also say that great powers can afford, for now, to go it alone. They have the market size, the military capacity and the leverage to dictate terms. Middle powers do not. But when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what's offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating. > > This is not sovereignty. It's the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination. > > In a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice: compete with each other for favour or to combine to create a third path with impact. > > We shouldn't allow the rise of hard power to blind us to the fact that the power of legitimacy, integrity and rules will remain strong — if we choose to wield them together.

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The full (and translated) text of the address is available here. So many bangers in this speech: Let me be direct: We are in the midst of a rupture...

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Good riddance #Iran

Canadian government is running out of appeal options on the court ruling that found they violated protestors’ charter rights when they illegally invoked the Emergency Powers (aka War Measures) Act to arrest them, seize their assets, and other abuses. Will the politicians involved be personally held to account? 🤔