Fascism: A Warning

Albright writes clearly and saliently on a topic she has seen grown and change through her lifetime in politics and political thought. She walks us through her definition of fascism and then takes us on a trip around the world to see it in action, from Duterte to Kim Jong Un, and then spends a lot of time discussing the developing political atmosphere in the United States. She laments the fall of the US as a world leader, the loss of trust in our government from other leaders around the world, the dubious position our democracy is currently occupying, and what it would take, in her eyes, to bring it back from the edge. She does not hold back on her opinions, but she is also very diplomatic. And she highlights exactly why she thinks America is in such a dubious position not based in our political leadership, but based in the way we interact with one another when it comes to politics. Contempt, she argues, is one of America's defining political attitudes, and that is largely what allows us to be so strongly divided by bad actors in our current political landscape. Well worth the read.