This is a garbage piece. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of history knows that you can’t just report on what fascist movements say, with a few fact checks thrown in. JD Vance doesn’t give a single shit about workers. The American fascist movement, like all such movements, is interested in appropriating the very real grievances of workers into a spectacle that services power rather than challenges it. Walter Benjamin calls this the aestheticization of politics.

Fascism attempts to organize the newly proletarianized masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while preserving property. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life.