[I find this short piece quite frustrating. I don't think it will persuade anyone, for I am arguing that the left has got something important wrong for nearly a century. And yet I think the arguments made here are important, if only a sketch of some longer argument.]
Fascism is not capitalist. Fascist nationalism opposes international trade and immigrant labor. This is a drag on a national economy; economies grow through trade. Look around you! We have the tariffs, we have the businesses going under because of Trump’s trade war, we have media companies losing millions because they’re trying to propagandize Trump, we have businesses losing money as they implement racist policies, we have the wholesale destruction of the US scientific establishment, the engine of future economic development. It’s losing money. It’s destroying capital.