The American Roots Of The World’s Right-Wing Nationalism 

Nicely material-analysis free zone as usual from Vox. Yes of course the right can become reactionary and authoritarian. But it usually does so in response to a crisis of capitalism - where the contradictions of capitalism cannot be reconciled using the usual fixes and it starts to decay. That decay is first felt by the poor, then the working class, then the middle class. The need for capital accumulation in a failing capitalist economy forces ever more people into intolerable conditions. Those conditions drive resentment. That resentment can be met with genuine mitigation by a progressive government. Else it is met with authoritarian repression, coupled with a divide-and-rule strategy which creates a favoured in-group which then gets to exploit a scapegoated out-group. The in-group is the political constituency of a fascist government which gets to take out all its resentment on the out-group. The out-group becomes a dehumanised class that can be even more brutally exploited for the continued wealth accumulation of the elites. And so the circle is squared again. Until the system decays even further and the in-group can no longer be bought off by the exploitation of the out-group. Seen in these terms, fascism is like colonialism where the colonised people are a portion of your own society. It has a short shelf life because it starts consuming the society itself.

at 9:30 the idea that a left authoritarianism must be because process isn't happening fast enough is questionable with many examples, but to mention one.... the lesson Che lernt first hand in Guatemala, that projects of Social Democracy in neocolonial context get crushed... thanks to the portfolio of war instruments used by Uncle Sam.

'Third World' perspective you missing settler colonial anxieties as the demographic evolves away from a 'nostalgic moment', similar to the hangovers of slavery in the USA, but apparent in Israel, Apartheid South Africa, and still among some white South Africans, New Zealanders and Australians.

great enlightening analysis - ty !