"Bears a Real Similarity to the Basic Structure of Fascist Politics"

"The American working class' suffering at the hands of the super-rich is very real. As Polanyi has written, the body politic will respond to that suffering one way or another, with a descent into ethno-nationalist authoritarianism being one of the very real options. Matt Stoller noted that a lot of liberals' disdain for Hawley was driven by the belief that 'fascism is what lives in an individual soul.' But fascism is an aggregate social event more than an individual creed—it's human politics' equivalent to an ecological collapse once the material stresses become too great.
"What is needed in response is not so much cosmopolitan liberalism but cosmopolitan populism: a genuine and broad-reaching populism that can unite everyone, working- and upper-class both, against the capitalist elite."

Jeff Spross at The Week worries over when conservatives "claim the cultural power of the urban liberal upper class, as opposed to the economic power of the 0.01 percent, is the real problem."