It is an informal summary of how one can view the United Sates of America, and the dozens of upvotes validate it as an acceptable interpretation. To put it analytically: the author wants us to call to mind atrocities (criteria) through which we can associate the U.S. (target) with the Third Reich (reference) and thereby motivate ourselves (audience) to think of the U.S. in a more antagonistic way (objective).
Despite the indisputableinfluences that the U.S. had on Fascism, and its support for some neofascists, I would not go so far as to qualify the U.S. as neofascist. That said, I don’t see the value in interrupting other lower‐class people whenever we accuse our oppressors of being (neo)fascists; we have valid reasons for resenting and rebelling against them whether our terminology is precise or not.
It is an informal summary of how one can view the United Sates of America, and the dozens of upvotes validate it as an acceptable interpretation. To put it analytically: the author wants us to call to mind atrocities (criteria) through which we can associate the U.S. (target) with the Third Reich (reference) and thereby motivate ourselves (audience) to think of the U.S. in a more antagonistic way (objective).
Despite the indisputable influences that the U.S. had on Fascism, and its support for some neofascists, I would not go so far as to qualify the U.S. as neofascist. That said, I don’t see the value in interrupting other lower‐class people whenever we accuse our oppressors of being (neo)fascists; we have valid reasons for resenting and rebelling against them whether our terminology is precise or not.