I should add that THOUGH THIS NEEDN'T BE THE CASE, one of the big problems of the fascism discourse, because it is so focused on things like right-wing populism and the attitudes of the white working class and such, is that it often does in fact distract from these constitutional https://twitter.com/CoreyRobin/status/1323095223942205441

institutions. Again, if you know anything about the best analyses of fascism from the 1930s to the 1970s, which were heavy on legal, political, constitutional, and institutional analysis, you know that this needn't be the case. But a lot of the more popular analysis today has

very little to say about institutions (I don't mean obviously cruel institutions like ICE but the constitutionally authorized institutions upon which the GOP's power as a political entity depends). Instead, it focuses on the popular currents, which I think are a distraction. But

again, because so many associate fascism with the white working class or with right-wing populism, it's almost inevitable that the discourse goes there rather than to the Constitution itself. (There are other problems with the discourse, but that's another story.)