In this supporter-exclusive midweek episode, Trey is joined by Justin, and they conclude their exploration of the classic political ideologies with a deep dive into Fascism.

On this week’s show, Trey and Justin discuss:

Fascism’s rejection of reason and its rejection of Enlightenment rationality.
The centrality of violence and struggle as an enduring premise of fascism.
How fascism holds the past as idyllic goal that that will lead to greatness in response to a degenerate modernity.
Fascism’s rejection of democracy with a specific focus on Carl Schmitt’s critique parliamentary democracy in which Schmitt argues that a singular leader can be more authentic to a peoples will than a process of voting.

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