I had to wait the whole seminar-class time to get affirmation that I am not stupid.
It was just...
Well...
Fallaci explained sore subject, analogies...warped...like wars, political phases get named afterwards or by others.
I think it's that United States of America that many of us voted for...the one that battled out World War II to establish freedom from a real tyrant or two plus a tidal wave of hate and confusion. Ironically, we elected a sometimes foul-mouthed cranky type to stand up for us, for all of us.
It was also more than thirty years ago. At the time we were in a checkmate cold war with Russia so the two number ones -- chief amongst Allies, head of the orbit that was soviet union/Axis -- were like in a wrestling match. And for most of the world it was a horrifying prospect, to talk about there, wherever it was.
Besides fighting tooth and nail over how to understand politics and violence, how to talk about stuff/not talk about stuff, there were a lot of unknowns. Even the scholarship about fascism was kept under wraps, and many scholars walked a razor thin wire between saying and not saying. Gets into censorship and safety, violence and war, journalism as not fake news and sometimes too hot to print.
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