These people aren't a political phenomenon, they're an animalistic phenomenon: the extreme regurgitation of the atavistic law—that of the strongest—rebelling against the very principles of mutual respect. This lunatic who rails against "the fat," against the bearded, against the cowardly and the gentle, and calls for war as the only measure of valor, isn't just a fascist, he's much worse. He's the uncivilized person who repudiates civilization, who considers the very principles of respect and tolerance a symptom of decadence. But he is decadent, a parody of an archaic culture aped by embittered males who are a hundred times more decadent, improbable, ridiculous, and weak than the worst woke activist. But they don't know it, they're in no position to understand it. And on top of being stupid and evil, they're armed. Do the math on what awaits us, the unarmed ones.

Pentagon chief Hegseth's "speech to the troops" is further proof that the word fascism is completely inadequate to describe the new advance. Fascism had less than a century of socialist uprisings, workers' and farmers' strikes to settle. Against the "reds," in short, on behalf of the bosses. These people want to settle accounts with two and a half centuries of democracy (starting with their own): with human rights, civil rights, women's liberation, the end of true patriarchy, the hegemony of the state in the use of force and weapons, the law as the equal rule for all. In short, they want to settle accounts with civilization, which disturbs their primitive male exuberance—the same as the colonists who built America by exterminating the natives.