News,
Veteran sociologist Frances Fox Piven fears the US may still ‘become a fascist country’
: detailed suggestions and opinions about
Veteran sociologist Frances Fox Piven fears the US may still ‘become a fascist country’
.
During the 2022 midterms, “Real Time” host Bill Maher and MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan sounded the alarm about all the far-right MAGA election denialists who were running for statewide races in key swing states. If enough of them prevailed, Maher and Hasan warned, they would be in a position to help Donald Trump pull off a coup n 2024’s presidential election.
Democrats, however, performed much better than expected in the midterms, defeating Trump-backed election denialists in gubernatorial races in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin. A long list of Trump-backed conspiracy theorists lost statewide races, and many of the Republican governors who were reelected were traditional conservatives rather than hyper-MAGA candidates, including Ohio’s Mike DeWine, Georgia’s Brian Kemp and New Hampshire’s Chris Sununu.
Many Trump critics have emphasized that the United States dodged a major bullet on Election Night. But according to veteran sociologist Frances Fox Piven, the U.S. isn’t out of the woods yet and still has the potential to slide into fascism.
READ MORE: Why ‘much-diminished’ Sarah Palin no longer stands out in the MAGA movement she helped create: journalist
During an interview with The Guardian, Piven, now 90, warned, “I don’t think this fight over elemental democracy is over by any means. The United States was well on the road to becoming a fascist country, and it still can become a fascist country.”
Leave a Comment