Stacey Abrams

And I use the term authoritarianism.

For folks who have been following my podcast and my Substack, I spend a lot of time talking about authoritarianism and autocracy.

But I think it's important for us to distinguish that authoritarianism is how a government behaves.

It's how it aggregates decision-making to a small group.

It intentionally disregards personal liberty and it opposes any form of accountability.

But it's a form of government.

Fascism is an ideology, and that's a belief system that pursues this notion that a certain brand of purity, whether it's racial purity, ethnic purity, religious purity, sometimes all of the above, that that purity is the organizing belief system of government behavior.

And we can all recognize the most famous fascist fashion.

That would be the Nazi uniform.

But we know other aspirants have learned from and borrowed its components.

Do you have an opinion about whether or not modern-day fascism has an aesthetic?

And if so, do you see hints of it cropping up in American fashion or globally because we see the rise of these authoritarian fascist governments across the world?

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