to fascists, LOOKS ARE EVERYTHING. they live by mirages and mirrors.
you can see this in 1980s fashion: the minute Republicans were successful with their #OPEC#oilCrisis, and then #IranHostage & #IranContra twofer coup against Jimmy Carter, shoulder pads popped on everything.
out went the dailywear of working class clothes like tshirts and jeans. everything became a riff on the business suit.
business suits are the uniform of USA corporatist fascism & Mussolini understood that… 🧵
Mussolini’s pictures in Time Magazine during his visits to the USA is what really cued me into what i always felt was off about USA’s “business suit culture”.
for decades i could not articulate why corporate attire was something different from the mainstream culture even though it was iterated and forced into shopping malls everywhere i went as a teen and young adult.
it became more poignant when right-wingers went nuts over Hillary Clinton’s “power suits”, how dare her coopt GOPcore?… 🧵
MUSSOLINI KNEW THE AMERICAN FASCIST UNIFORM IS THE BUSINESS SUIT.
he would would get into the best of the Milan bespoke tailors to come to the USA to talk to fascists like Henry Ford and his conspiracy or American milliardaires.
and, just to hammer the point: USA was happy to give asylum to Ludwig Von Mises to escape the Nazis; yet his whole take on economics is underpinned by #eugenics. meanwhile USAGov turned away boats full of Jewish families to die by the hand of their fellow Nazis… 🧵
the American elites have always fought for control of their “American” look.
i believe that up until the advent of cinema, “the 400” (as they used to calm themselves), had a very firm grip on what was American™.
but cinema, then The Crash happened; and there was a rearrangement of who was in and out of that oligarchic circle jerk.
the Bushes were the beginning & end of that New Order. after Obama, that went out the window.
MAGA is just revealing the ugly that was always there./🧵
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