Yeah, I think, you know, to pause on bullying for a second, I think it's important to acknowledge fascism as political bullying. And this is kind of an obvious enough statement, but at the same time, I think it's important for us to note, right? The bullying is the point.

Fascism is a word that means something. And they didn't have a cult of personality, partly because Jesus occupied that space. And while this kind of American power always sort of supported violence, there's always been a paradox of it. You know, we declare ourselves a city on a hill. We don't openly fetishize the violence to the point of pleasure. Trump changed that. He brought those two elements of classical fascism. Now I think it is a fair descriptor.

I think to Alex, fascism means something very different than, like, maybe a larger understanding of fascism. I agree. I think he uses it kind of interchangeably with his bizarre, like, sort of aesthetic notions of a police state. Yeah. And stuff like, so being forced to fight for the state. Is part of what he would call that.

Fascists wear fancy suits. They don't wear camo.