It feels like the 1930s all over again — and with good reason. The rise of American fascists and right-wing extremism around the world has been a known trend for decades, and America’s past flirtations with fascism had been largely swept under the rug by the then anti-semites who tried to put a stop to FDR’s New Deal and prevent the U.S. from getting into World War II.

They fought against labor unions and labor organizers, often using private militia as henchmen to do their dirtywork with plausible deniability for themselves. The Ku Klux Klan — the principle paramilitary organization formed during Reconstruction to undo egalitarian gains from the Civil War — was just one of many instruments put to use in service of plutocratic aims to quell any “communist awakening” amongst their workers, lest they get any uppity ideas for themselves. They fell for the popular conspiracy theories of their time, which included Hitler’s bogus assertion that Jewish bankers controlled the world and had to be stopped before they destroyed the white race.
Those fascists, butthurt over America’s overwhelmingly popular decision to enter the war and stop Hitler from exterminating the Jews, seethed with jealousy at the post-war “liberal consensus” that flourished alongside the booming US economy, propelled first by the war effort and later by the peacetime success of the New Deal‘s long shadow and the burgeoning of the American middle class.
The American fascists turned into the John Birch Society, and the McCarthyites, and the Libertarians, and the Moral Majority, and the Gingrich Revolution, and the Tea Party, and the MAGA / QAnon stew sloshing around mass media. The kooks on the far right — the kind of ilk so cray cray that even William F. Buckley excommunicates you from the Republican Party — have taken over the hen house now. Outrage sells, as Facebook well knows — and as two-bit dictators around the world have bribed Mark Zuckerberg to brainwash the masses using the most inanely illogical propaganda prolefeed, the world tilts dangerously towards authoritarianism and the end of our democracy as we know it. And with it, all hope for truth and light into the future for some time to come — the equivalent of a political meteor hitting the Earth.
The American fascists are still around, and now they have tools of propaganda that Goebbels could never have even wet dreamed of. They’re more powerful and more well-connected — to other sociopaths, malignant narcissists, and other pathological cult-leader types who might be of transactional service to each other from time to time. We’d be wise to keep an eye on these folks.
Name | Type | Location | Known for |
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Greg Abbott | Politician | Texas | |
Roman Abramovich | Foreign agent | ||
ACU Strategic Partners | Foreign agent | ||
Sheldon Adelson | Businessperson | Las Vegas, NV | |
AggregateIQ | Corporation | ||
Roger Ailes | Media personality | Deceased | |
Todd Akin | Politician | Missouri | |
Nelson W. Aldrich | |||
Ali Alexander | Extremist | ||
Samuel Alito | Judge | Washington, DC | |
American Energy Alliance | Non-profit | ||
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) | Non-profit | ||
Americans for Prosperity | PAC | ||
Philip Anschutz | Businessperson | Colorado | |
Michael Anton | |||
Lee Atwater | Political Operative | ||
Michele Bachman | Politician | MN | |
Steve Bannon | Media personality | Houseboats | |
Ross Barnett | |||
William Barr | Public Sector | ||
Maurice Barres | Author | France | |
Louis Beam | White Supremacist | ||
Roy Beck | White Supremacist | ||
Andy Biggs | Politician | AZ | |
Black Legion | Extremist | Michigan | |
David Bogatin | Oligarch | NYC | |
Jacob Bogatin | Oligarch | ||
John Wilkes Booth | Criminal | Deceased | |
L. Brent Bozell | Extremist | ||
Harry and Lynde Bradley | Kochtopus | ||
Andrew Breitbart | Media personality | ||
Anders Breivik | Extremist | Oslo, Norway | |
Mo Brooks | Politician | Huntsville, AL | |
Brother's Circle | Criminal | ||
Michael Brown | Ferguson, MO | ||
Pat Buchanan | Politician | Washington, DC | |
William F. Buckley Jr | Media personality | ||
Doug Burley | Political Operative | ||
Cambridge Analytica | Corporation | London, UK | |
Renaud Camus | Author | France | |
Tucker Carlson | Media personality | NYC | |
Doug Casey | Businessperson | ||
Michael Catanzaro | Lobbyist | ||
Cato Institute | Think Tank | ||
Madison Cawthorn | Politician | NC | |
Center to Protect Patient Rights | Kochtopus | ||
Mike Cernovich | Media personality | ||
CGCN Group | Lobbyist | ||
James Chaney | Activist | Neshoba County, MS | |
Jeremy Joseph Christian | Extremist | Portland, OR | |
Chris Christie | Politician | ||
Michael Cohen | Businessperson | NYC | |
Steven A. Cohen | Businessperson | ||
Roy Cohn | Political Operative | Deceased | |
Competitive Enterprise Institute | Think Tank | Washington, DC | |
Continental Resources | Corporation | Oklahoma | |
Coors brewing family | Koch Investor | Colorado | |
Council of Conservative Citizens (CoC) | |||
Ted Cruz | Politician | Texas | |
Jefferson Davis | |||
Kim Davis | Public Sector | Kentucky | |
Devos family | Koch Investor | ||
Amadou Diallo | New York | ||
James Dobson | Media personality | ||
Chester Doles | |||
Rod Dreher | Extremist | ||
Dinesh D'Souza | Media personality | ||
Doug Ducey | Politician | AZ | |
Aleksandr Dugin | Extremist | Russia | |
David Duke | White Supremacist | ||
John Eastman | Political Operative | ||
Myron Ebell | Political Operative | ||
Election Integrity Project California | Extremist | ||
Larry Ellison | Businessperson | ||
Cassandra Fairbanks | |||
Jerry Falwell, Jr | Televangelist | ||
The Family | Lobbyist | ||
The Federalist Society | Extremist | ||
Scott Fitzgerald | Politician | WI | |
Michael Flynn | Cult Leader | ||
For America | PAC | ||
Nathan Bedford Forrest | |||
Fox News | Corporation | ||
Free Congress Foundation | |||
Freedom Caucus | Politician | ||
Freedom Partners | Kochtopus | ||
FreedomWorks | Extremist | ||
Matt Gaetz | Politician | ||
Kevin Gentry | Kochtopus | ||
Greg Gianforte | Politician | ||
Newt Gingrich | Media personality | ||
Tim "Baked Alaska" Gionet | White Supremacist | ||
Rudy Giuliani | Politician | NYC | |
GiveSendGo | |||
Barry Goldwater | Politician | AZ | |
Seb Gorka | Political Operative | ||
Billy Graham | |||
Madison Grant | Political Operative | ||
Chuck Grassley | Politician | ||
The Great Awakening | |||
Marjorie Taylor Greene | QAnon | GA | |
Eric Greitens | Politician | MO | |
Harold Hamm | Kochtopus | ||
James Henry Hammond | Extremist | ||
Warren G. Harding | Politician | ||
Billy James Hargis | Extremist | ||
Orrin Hatch | Politician | ||
Josh Hawley | Politician | MO | |
Matthew Heimbach | Extremist | ||
Jesse Helms | Politician | ||
Leona Helmsley | |||
Diane Hendricks | WI | ||
Heritage Foundation | Think Tank | Washington, DC | |
Honest Elections Project | Extremist | ||
Herbert Hoover | Politician | Washington, DC | |
Mike Huckabee | Politician | ||
Laura Ingraham | Media personality | ||
Andrew Jackson | Politician | Deceased | |
John Birch Society | Extremist | ||
Andrew Johnson | Politician | Deceased | |
Chuck Johnson | Media personality | ||
Ron Johnson | Politician | ||
Alex Jones | Media personality | ||
Jim Jordan | Politician | OH | |
Judicial Education Project | Extremist | ||
Islam Karimov | Oligarch | Uzbekistan | |
Alex Kaschuta | Media personality | ||
Brett Kavanaugh | Judge | DC | |
Dr. D. James Kennedy | |||
John F. Kennedy | Politician | Deceased | |
Robert F. Kennedy | Politician | Deceased | |
Anna Khachiyan | |||
Martin Luther King | Activist | Deceased | |
Charlie Kirk | Media personality | ||
Walter Kirn | Author | MT | |
KKK | White Supremacist | ||
Bill Koch | Businessperson | ||
Charles Koch | Kochtopus | Kansas | |
David Koch | Kochtopus | Deceased | |
Fred Koch | Kochtopus | Kansas | |
Frederick Koch | Businessperson | New York | |
David Koresh | Cult Leader | Waco, TX | |
Ku Klux Klan (see KKK) | White Supremacist | ||
Kylie Jane Kremer | |||
David Lane | White Supremacist | ||
Ken Langone | Businessperson | ||
Lyndon LaRouche | Cult Leader | ||
Robert LeFevre | Kochtopus | ||
Leonard Leo | Extremist | ||
Marine Le Pen | Politician | France | |
Honor Levy | |||
Liberty Counsel | |||
The Liminal Order | |||
William S. Lind | Political Operative | ||
Kelly Loeffler | Politician | Georgia | |
Dana Loesch | Media personality | ||
Sen. Huey Long | Politician | Deceased | |
Thomas Mair | Extremist | ||
Paul Manafort | Lobbyist | ||
Clarence Manion | |||
Blake Masters | Politician | AZ | |
John McAfee | Businessperson | Deceased | |
Sen. Joseph McCarthy | Politician | Deceased | |
Kevin McCarthy | Politician | CA | |
Michael McKenna | Kochtopus | ||
Timothy McVeigh | Extremist | Oklahoma City, OK | |
Andrew Mellon | Businessperson | ||
Rebekah Mercer | Oligarch | ||
Robert Mercer | Oligarch | ||
MicroChip | |||
Stephen Miller | Extremist | ||
Michael Milken | |||
Cleta Mitchell | Extremist | OK | |
Semion Mogilevich | Criminal | ||
Stefan Molyneux | Media personality | ||
Sun Myung Moon | Cult Leader | ||
Roy Moore | Politician | AL | |
JP Morgan | Businessperson | ||
Rupert Murdoch | Oligarch | ||
Jack Murphy | |||
Benito Mussolini | |||
MWR Strategies | Kochtopus | ||
Dasha Nekrasova | |||
neo-Nazis | Extremist | ||
Terry Nichols | Extremist | ||
Richard Nixon | Politician | ||
Ralph Norman | Politician | ||
NRA | Extremist | ||
NYPD | Public Sector | ||
Barack Obama | Politician | Chicago, DC, Los Angeles | |
John M. Olin | Kochtopus | ||
Viktor Orban | Politician | ||
The Order | |||
Candace Owens | Extremist | ||
Matt Parrott | Extremist | ||
Laszlo Pasztor | |||
Norman Vincent Peale | Businessperson | ||
Mike Pence | Media personality | ||
Rick Perry | Politician | ||
Scott Perry | Politician | ||
Jordan B Peterson | Academic | ||
William Pierce | |||
Pioneer Fund | |||
Jeanine Pirro | Media personality | ||
Mike Pompeo | Public Sector | ||
Jack Posobiec | Media personality | ||
Lewis Powell | Businessperson | ||
Sydney Powell | Political Operative | ||
Proud Boys | Extremist | ||
Thomas Pyle | Businessperson | ||
QAnon | QAnon | ||
Jean Raspail | Author | France | |
Nancy Reagan | Media personality | Deceased | |
Ronald Reagan | Politician | Deceased | |
Kyle Rittenhouse | |||
Pat Robertson | Televangelist | ||
Dylann Roof | |||
George Romney | |||
Mitt Romney | Politician | UT | |
Murray Rothbard | Extremist | ||
Dave Rubin | |||
Richard Mellon Scaife | Koch Investor | ||
David Schnare | Political Operative | ||
Stephen Schwarzman | |||
Rick Scott | Politician | ||
Jeff Sessions | Politician | AL | |
Marc Short | Political Operative | ||
Sinclair Broadcasting Group | Corporation | ||
Paul Singer | Koch Investor | ||
SNCC | Non-profit | ||
Social Contract Press | White Supremacist | ||
Richard Spencer | White Supremacist | ||
Balaji Srinivasan | Businessperson | ||
State Policy Network | Kochtopus | ||
Dan Stein | White Supremacist | ||
Lothrop Stoddard | White Supremacist | ||
Roger Stone | Lobbyist | ||
Richard Strong | Businessperson | ||
Sen. Robert Taft | Politician | ||
John H. Tanton | White Supremacist | Michigan | |
Tea Party | PAC | ||
Peter Thiel | Businessperson | Los Angeles, CA | |
Clarence Thomas | Judge | Washington, DC | |
Ginni Thomas | Political Operative | Washington, DC | |
Three Percenters | Extremist | ||
Traditionalist Workers Party | Extremist | ||
Turning Point USA | Extremist | ||
Unabomber | Criminal | ||
Unification Church | Cult Leader | ||
Unite the Right | Activist | Charlottesville, NC | |
University of Texas at Austin | Academic | Austin, TX | |
JD Vance | Politician | OH | |
Ricky Vaughn | |||
Ruben Verastigui | Criminal | DC | |
John Vinson | Extremist | ||
George Wallace | Politician | Alabama | |
Joe Walsh | Media personality | ||
Kelli Ward | Politician | AZ | |
Ron Watkins | Extremist | ||
Randy Weaver | White Supremacist | Naples, ID | |
Vicki Weaver | White Supremacist | Naples, ID | |
Weev | White Supremacist | ||
Paul Weyrich | White Supremacist | ||
White Citizens Councils | White Supremacist | ||
Geert Wilders | |||
Darren Wilson | Public Sector | ||
WikiLeaks | Foreign agent | ||
Milo Yiannopoulos | Media personality |
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