{"id":6835,"date":"2026-02-27T08:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6835"},"modified":"2026-02-27T08:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:33:08","slug":"trump-maha-and-the-nature-of-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6835","title":{"rendered":"Trump, MAHA, and the Nature of Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many of Trump&#8217;s critics are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/p\/behind-the-maha-veil\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/p\/behind-the-maha-veil\">rightly denouncing<\/a> the efforts of the RFK-led Department of &#8220;Health,&#8221; but I think they are missing the true scale of the malice behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My theory is much darker. It is merely part of American fascism&#8217;s project of creating a fact-free world, so that disease is no longer based on its actual causes, enabling a fascist government to scapegoat the groups it hates. Nazis decried the Jews (and homosexuals) as \u201cunhygienic;\u201d expect the Trump regime to do so in earnest for the nonwhite immigrant groups it despises (not to mention the LGBTQIA community) once a critical mass of its base is sufficiently distant from fact-and-science-based theories of health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not about increasing the market for quack cures, it&#8217;s about increasing the market for fascist measures. They are building concentration camps and they intend to use them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of Trump&#8217;s critics are rightly denouncing the efforts of the RFK-led Department of &#8220;Health,&#8221; but I think they are missing the true scale of the malice behind it. My theory is much darker. It is merely part of American fascism&#8217;s project of creating a fact-free world, so that disease is no longer based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-to-news-articles","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6837,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}