Above: An image from the "Stop the Steal Rally" before the January 6th Capitol Insurrection which was an attempt to subvert the 2020 election and part of a widespread and on-going attack on U.S. democracy.
With the incoming second inauguration of Donald Trump next week, here are five quick reads on how to defeat fascism (and I think reading them in this order is particularly helpful)...
"How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them" by Jason Stanley
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586030/how-fascism-works-by-jason-stanley/
"The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition" by Jeanelle Hope and Bill Mullen
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2223-the-black-antifascist-tradition
"The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy" by Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-flag-and-the-cross -9780197618684
"Tyranny of the Minority" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
(Read their book "How Democracies Die" first, if you haven't yet.)
"On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" by Timothy Snyder
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/558051/on-tyranny-by-timothy-snyder/
