I've been seeing a bunch of DNC apologia posts lately — and this failure in critical analysis belies a dangerous ignorance of history that will doom us to repeat this same sick fascist drama over and over again.

General Smedley Butler, one of the most decorated US Marines in history, was one of the few who saw it:
a symbiosis of unchecked capitalism and fascism, with one feeding off the failures of the other.

Butler was an outspoken supporter of the American World War I veterans who condemned the US government’s withholding of pay it promised the men. And in 1934, a group of wealthy businessmen and Wall Street elites with direct ties to Hitler attempted to recruit him to lead a fascist coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

This cabal of American Nazis planned to use the veterans as a paramilitary force to install a corporate-controlled government. Butler exposed this plot to Congress. Yet what is most haunting is that his warnings about the American Liberty League (the “Business Plot”) and the broader American Nazi movement not only went ignored but got buried.

Indeed, the American Nazis didn’t simply vanish — they used their enormous wealth and control over the media to downplay the plot and smear General Butler. Despite the evidence, no one was prosecuted. 

Thus we arrive at the year 2025 where the American Nazis have boldly resurfaced and finally succeeded in their plot that was nearly a century in the making.

How?

The spinelessness of liberals

Liberalism is an inherently weak ideology that will cower behind civility politics when faced with fascist threats.

Libs love to "both sides" everything because they want to maintain the illusion of democracy but they will never endanger the interests of the capital class. They'll gladly crack down on progressive movements but turn a blind eye to the rising tide of white nationalism. They'll allow corpo parasites to amass obscene wealth and power while eroding worker protections and undermining unions.

Libs love to pretend they're the "defenders of democracy and freedom" but they only protect the freedom of capital. You can see this reflected in the policies of virtually every liberal politician in the Western world, from Macron to Starmer — they'll sell out their own mothers to protect the ultra-wealthy.

And as neoliberalism entrenches itself as the status quo, it exacerbates every crack in the system:

1. Erosion of worker’s rights: Deregulation and austerity gutted unions and dismantled worker protections. So, when people look for justice, they find institutions toothless or complicit.
   
2. Corporate capture: Lobbying made corporate bribery legal, allowing companies to buy laws, evade taxes and consolidate monopolies — all while Washington leeches deflect blame onto immigrants, minorities or foreign powers (you see how Trump keeps shitting on allies: "They're taking advantage of us").
   
3. Distrust in institutions: Neolibs hollowed out public services, leaving citizens without healthcare, education or housing. People see institutions failing and (correctly) blame the system — but fascists seize this discontent and misdirect it.
4. Monopoly on power: The pseudo-duopoly in the US (and its counterparts here in the EU) ensures that voters get the illusion of choice. Whether they vote for Party A or Party B, the results only align with capital interests.

Then they'll call for "unity" with far-right freaks while demonising actual leftists who demand material change.

"Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds"

Don't believe me?

Why then, for the last 70 years, has US foreign policy been exclusively about funding and/or supporting fascist groups?

Why did they stab Bernie in the back to nominate the war criminal and 2-time loser, Hillary Clinton?

Joe Brain-dead and his invertebrate AG, Merrick Garland, could have and should have immediately arrested both Trump and all MAGA leadership after the 6th of January. They had everything they needed to charge them all with sedition.

Instead, they betrayed their oaths.

And 4 years later, they congratulated themselves for how well they "peacefully transferred power" as they handed the levers of power to the new American Nazi party. They don't care about democracy. They only care about the interests of their corporate donors — it's a private club the American people aren't invited to.

The Rise of American Nazism

Rooted in the perennial obsession with "natural social hierarchy" and power, fascism is the ideology of domination cloaked in the language of "order," tradition" and "strength."

Today's fascism is more decentralised, making it harder for the average person to pin down. And, at the same time, it's much easier for loathsome sympathisers to obfuscate by gaslighting and dismissing anyone calling it out as "hysterical" or having "lost the plot." They'll tell you "The word has completely lost its meaning."

The core tenets remain:

• Racist fascists: morons obsessed with the idea of an "outsider" corrupting their idealised society. They're all about ethnic purity, nationalism and xenophobia.
  
• Religious fascists: they frame their domination as 'divine will,' using faith as a tool to suppress dissent and enforce conformity. American evangelicals are a prime example.
  
• Economic fascists: the oligarchs hard at work consolidating wealth and power using the language of 'freedom' and 'meritocracy' to justify their exploitation.

Yet the unifying thread is their shared disdain for equality, worship of power and violent rejection of pluralism. While they may squabble over details (e.g. Elon vs the racists on the H1B visas), they always find common ground in their hatred for the "outgroup," i.e. immigrants, Jews, minorities, LGBT+, etc.

Fascism didn't start or end in its 20th-century manifestations.

It's insidious in its ability to adapt — it’s not just goose-stepping or swastika armbands — it might wear a suit, run a tech company or claim to "defend democracy" while dismantling it.

MAGA is a Nazi movement

The vacuum of trust created by the establishment and the failure of liberalism created fertile ground for fascists to harness discontent.

And their playbook hasn’t changed since the 1930s:

1. Scapegoating: fascists weaponise anger by directing it at "the other" — immigrants, minorities or even imaginary enemies like “globalist elites.” The lies are easy to sell because they tap into genuine frustration with an unaccountable ruling class.
   
2. Weaponised media: Twitter, Meta and Fox are tools for amplifying fascist rhetoric. Whether it’s Brexit, the AfD or the GOP, these bloodsuckers feed on division because rage keeps dipshits engaged. "Bread and circuses."
   
3. Economic parasites: fascists love pretending they're anti-establishment, but they serve the same capitalist interests liberalism does. They just dress it in nationalist or religious rhetoric to keep workers from uniting.
   

General Butler didn’t just warn us about the dangers of fascism — homie showed resistance is possible, even when the odds are completely fucked.

But his story also proves the cost of complacency: when people ignore warning signs, fascism doesn’t just disappear. It adapts, waits and resurfaces when conditions are ripe.

So don't let these Nazi fucks gaslight you into believing you're overreacting.

Democracy must be actively defended 

We must treat Nazis and other fascists not as political opponents but as the existential threats they are.

We need to de-platform, take legal action and outright ban any fascist party to prevent them from growing. You cannot play civility politics with those who would dismantle democracy. We need ruthless, progressive leaders who understand power and aren't afraid to use it against the enemies of liberty.

Fascist and Nazi movements must be destroyed with no hesitation.

We also need leaders who will never take corporate bribes — or as liberals like to call it: "lobbying " — so that clearly excludes 99% of the DNC.