Sam Harris

There's no question.

But here's one definition.

I went to ChatGPT for this.

Fascism is an ultra-nationalist, anti-liberal political project organized around a promise of a national rebirth.

a cleansing restoration after a story of humiliation and decay.

It rejects pluralism as a sham, treats opposition as an enemy rather than as a rival, and elevates coercion, often outright violence, as morally necessary to purge internal, quote, traitors and reassert collective greatness.

In its mature form, it becomes a leader-centered mass movement that fuses with the state, corrodes neutral institutions, and renders genuine political competition functionally impossible.

So all of that resonates with the current moment.

I mean, the only piece that

has not been achieved, but I don't think it will be for want of trying, is this final line of, you know, renders genuine political competition functionally impossible, right?

So it'll be very important what happens in November around the midterm elections.

One could argue that not all of these variables have been fully achieved, but there's certainly been movement directionally across all of these

So you put this in slightly different language in your piece.

So let's just kind of run through your 18.

We might not get to all of them.

And let me know if you want to skip ahead to any that you more favor.

But let's just start with the first one.

Demolition of norms.

What do you mean by that?

Yeah.