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Reporter: ‘People Need to Fight to Return the Country to Godliness’
Something fascinates me about fascist-era architecture. It’s different from Soviet-style architecture, often labeled “socialist realism” because it is not inherently ugly. Almost maze-like, the linear monotony of these buildings expresses power, and they pop up in cities all over Europe: Germany, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, for example. My phone camera is filled with good examples.
America doesn’t express its fascist sentiments in architecture the way other countries do. It doesn’t have to because it has Donald Trump running for president. It has MAGA. Trump and MAGA, however, are clumsy efforts at fascism. They are buffoonish, thug-like, and ignorant. Samuel Alito, though, is now a prime example of the tight, clean lines and methodical arching of the movement from the last century that stated some people are superior to others. Alito and his wife eloquently capture the repetitive whispers of the most stoic example of fascist ideological aspirations.
