Sorry but isn’t the debate over whether or not the US is “fascist” a dead end? Like the Nazis weren’t completely defeated, they were absorbed. Fascism is smaller than what is going on here. Fascism is the dog at the end of the chain, but someone is holding the other end.

Sorry I’m not directing this at you, just this endless debate that always ends in a critical analysis of Umberto Eco, and none being any better for it.

Yeah, we aren’t quite at the “roving groups of brown shirts doing open pogroms and putting political enemies in concentration camps” stage yet, except maybe in small areas for short periods of time.

Shit is bad, but it’s going to get much much worse

Coat of paint is going to flake off.

When the USSR broke up I believe the KGB took control of the nuclear facilities and the CIA even helped them because everyone agrees that having uncontrolled and unaccounted for nukes is very bad. I would guess that in the event of US balkanization the CIA would do the same, and if they failed to do so I’d expect Chinese, Russian, and British intelligence to assist.

How would states secure the nukes within their territory? It’s not like nuclear missile operators are residents of the state they are based in.

The fact that Democrats swept Georgia and Arizona in 2020 suggests they aren’t as secure in their positions as they like to pretend. That said, a lot of this hinges on the political power of municipalities (and their resident corporate anchors). It still all runs back to capitalist institutions and financial brokers.

A fascist turn in the US would ultimately pit business interests against one another, as power brokers try to cut one another off at the knees by bankrupting or taking over their rivals. The only end-game there would be to build the kind of economic firewalls that the US loves to build around its foreign enemies - Cuba, NK, Russia, etc. We’d just turn that policy inward and start building walls between North and South Carolina or by sanctioning all the big businesses in downtown Austin to death.