America Is Not Immune to Fascism

“Fascism Works If Everybody Is Afraid”: One Democratic Congressman’s Antidote to Trumpism

Illinois representative Sean Casten tells VF that town halls are at the core of democracy because people “deserve to have their voices heard,” and explains how historic progress takes collective effort.

America Is Not Immune to Fascism

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week.First he came for the Department of Agriculture, pausing grant payments and loans to small farmers and canceling Forest Service contracts for prescribed burns. Then he took his hatchet to the National Park Service, firing park…

I do not like to use the word “fascism” in any circumstance, for example the current government of Argentina, than to seek to destroy the national state as opposed to classical fascism, but it costs to replace it. In the United States it is easier to use it: it makes less noise. Here, a note that seems contradictory to the previous one, which described Trump’s offensive (withdrawn from federal funds) to the most prestigious universities (private…

Congress of Illinois Sean Casten has held more than 80 town halls in his suburb district of Chicago since his election in 2018. For the Democrat, they are a fundamental element of a functional democracy. People "need to make their voices heard," he told me. "They deserve to feel represented." These voices can sometimes be [...]