Germany and other countries are suspicious even critical of the expansive political censorship, violent political methods towards one party in power in United States of 2020/21, just as some of the same countries and United States ironically were suspicious and critical of identical political trends in Germany of 1930/31.
Just as John T. Flynn described in his 1944 book As We Go Marching of the preceding 100 years of political, economic developments lending to the rise of Fascism in Germany, perhaps a German will write a similar book of United States later this decade or next.
"The test is—how many of the essential principles of fascism do you accept and to what extent are you prepared to apply those fascist ideas to American social and economic life? When you can put your finger on the men or groups that urge for America the debt-supported state, the autarchical corporative state, the state bent on the socialization of investment and the bureaucratic government of industry and society, the establishment of the institution of militarism... and the institution of imperialism under which it proposes to regulate and rule the world... and proposes to alter the forms of our government to approach... absolute government—then you will know you have located the authentic fascist."
John T. Flynn (1882-1964), As We Go Marching (1944)
Note:
See Ludwig von Mises Institute's website for a free ebook (pdf/epub) of the aforementioned.
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