Most popular fronts have tried to organize left to center movements. This is what both Republicans and Democrats in the US have studiously tried to prevent in the past 70 years–a popular front that had within it radical leftist organizations. That has led to a Red Scare in the Truman administration, a conservative opposition in the Kennedy-Johnson era, and the development of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council in the latter days of the Cold War.
What that has produced in reaction is potentially a popular front of the right, argues Wobbly Juan Conantz. It is a view worth considering and testing with evidence of how the Trump administration operates.
An interesting proposition in the comments:
“If 20th century fascism was: statist, sheepishly partyist, expansionist
Than the 21st century alt-fascisms look like: localist, narcissistic & individualistic, separationist & segregationist”
I find it odd that Conatz’ article never once mentioned the Koch brothers. I don’t think there’s a bigger force on the right, in terms of setting and driving an agenda — or at least there wasn’t until this election. Yet Conatz never mentions the Kochs and barely discusses the history of the election. Lacking that history, what he’s left with is a static and schematic treatment.