The stripping away of all democratic checks and balances, including the law itself, is not fascism. Fascism…

The stripping away of all democratic checks and balances, including the law itself, is not fascism. Fascism is a State-phenomenon, another Westphalian bubble concept. It’s the re-emergence of what preceded the Westphalian agreement that created modern States. Royalism. 1/2 https://t.co/vGzKp7gSwt

Neo-royalism. These checks and balances didn’t have their origin in any democratic movement. They were controls placed by rival elites, upon other elites, like kings. Trumpism is the attempt to remove those controls and restore an absolute king. /end