Fascist poster boy Benito Mussolini said if you pluck a chicken one feather at a time, people don’t notice.
His analogy spoke to the fact that a leader might consolidate power feather by feather and before you know it you have that scariest of bald chickens: fascism.
The Trump campaign then Presidency saw outrageous words and actions elicit outlandish defensives or an equally heinous complicity of silence.
The collective shrug of most Americans is in many ways the most disturbing, as they support a scary normalization of each of fascism’s feathers.
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