Coda Fascism Now and Then: William Connolly and Nidesh Lawtoo in Conversation
William Connolly and I started discussing emerging (new) fascist movements back in the spring of 2016, at Johns Hopkins University. Donald Trump’s campaign was beginning to gain traction in the primaries and, as I mentioned in the introduction, we shared a concern with the aff ective and contagious power of his rhetoric. As we had the occasion to meet again, a year later, this time in Weimar, Germany, in the summer of 2017, we naturally resumed the conversation. We had kept in regular touch, and while I had written a few articles on new fascism, Connolly was at work on a short book titled Aspirational Fascism—we were already into material, so to speak.
"Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and to point our finger at any of its new instances—every day, in every part of the world."
Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism”
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