American Fascism

Fascism doesn't arrive in America with jackboots and rallies—it seeps in through Fox News segments, church sermons, and think tank essays until the unimaginable becomes unremarkable. These episodes trace how authoritarian ideology has been normalized across American life: Fox's Greg Gutfeld casually declaring elections don't work, Christian Reconstructionists calling for a "Red Caesar" to bypass the Constitution, Orthodox converts in rural Appalachia openly embracing fascist politics. What emerges is a chilling portrait of the banality of evil—ordinary people in ordinary settings cultivating extraordinary threats to democracy, building on decades of groundwork laid by figures from R.J. Rushdoony to Michael Anton, now manifesting in our current political moment.