This accurate and useful overview misses the extent to which the "fascism" position is in fact unfalsifiable as it has been developed by theorists. All this proves, for them, is that the fascism was *ineffective*, or that, sure, fascism is everywhere! It's a maddening position. https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1325121286561914881

This thread gives a great example of what I'm talking about. Bessner clearly gets that there is a difference between the theory usage and ordinary usage (ordinary usage is the one where fascism means you should *assassinate* the fascist if you can!): https://twitter.com/dbessner/status/1324798281835229195

I think the assassination question is a good one to ask people to determine whether they are using the term as it exists in common discourse, or in its technical sense where little bits of everything could be fascist to a greater or lesser extent. https://twitter.com/philoshua/status/1324758508479328256