🤷 I'm not seeing who claimed that "fascism was purely driven by economic needs"; the claim with which Stancil took issue was that "material suffering" was/is a necessary (not a sufficient or sole) condition for selling fascism.
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Well if there are lots of Trump-loving fascists (the majority of them) who are not experiencing material suffering…that idea is pretty clearly refuted.
sep 3, 2025, 1:13 am • 0 0 • view
I'm not convinced that follows either; I don't think fascism necessarily needs "selling" to win an election because the presidential vote tends to split evenly and swing voters tend to swing against the incumbent if the economy goes south or their kids come home in body bags. So all a fascist...
sep 3, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
...has to do to become President is win a major-party primary enough times that they're running against an incumbent when swing voters turn against that incumbent for primarily non-ideological reasons. Then you get fascism without the fascist even having to sell themselves to the wider electorate.
sep 3, 2025, 1:29 am • 0 0 • view
Regardless, I was disputing a later empirical claim: that Trump support rises with income. That claim is at best a half-truth. (And that's in scientific surveys of individuals, the claim is surely false if we look at ecological data like the county level.)
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