But two basic elements were missing from the original fascist equation in America in 2020. One is total war. Americans remember the Civil War and imagine future civil wars to come. They have recently engaged in expeditionary wars that have blown back on American society in militarized policing and paramilitary fantasies.75 But total war reconfigures society in quite a different way. It constitutes a mass body, not the individualized commandos of 2020.
