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The Second Coming Part Three: What Next, Come January 20?

Historical comparison and analogy can be our guide, not just to what happens today, but to what might happen in the future; but such a powerful analytical tool is only valid provided such comparisons are made with a clear, logical head, and not out of fear, hatred & irrationality.

Peter Winn-Brown
21 min readJan 2, 2025
The style of worship may be very different, but the fanaticism is just the same.

‘Feelings propel fascism more than thought does. We might call them mobilizing passions, since they function in fascist movements to recruit followers and in fascist regimes to ‘weld’ the ‘fascist’ tribe to its leader. The following mobilizing passions are present in fascisms, though they may sometimes only be articulated implicitly:

The primacy of the group, towards which one has duties superior to every right, whether universal or individual.

The belief that one’s group is a victim, a sentiment that justifies any action against the groups enemies, internal as well as external.

Dread of the groups decadence under the corrosive effect of individualistic or cosmopolitan liberalism.

Closer integration of the community within a brotherhood (fascio) whose unity and purity are forged by…

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Peter Winn-Brown
Peter Winn-Brown

Written by Peter Winn-Brown

The past can illuminate the present if we shine the light of inquiry openly, truthfully, with attention to detail & care for the salient facts.

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