masquenox

That's not going to work. To make it work, you need to be reporting people who aren't well-known - ie, like the overt white supremacists in your own town.

but their ideological descendents still managed to fester

That's because the US and their liberal European collaborators went out of their way to preserve fascism in Europe. The US tried to destroy the Taliban - and now the Taliban is essentially untouchable (which they most definitely weren't before). You get a lot of political credibility on your home turf for defeating the US - just ask Vietnam.

I’m having trouble parsing it.

The whole reason there is a fascist resurgence is because liberalism has been exposed as a pack of lies. That started even before the 2008 recession, and now one of liberalism's holiest cows - Zionism - is collapsing right before everyone's eyes.

No more carrot for the US - now there will only be the stick. "Hearts & Minds" had absolutely nothing to do with the brown people they were dropping napalm and willy pete on - the target of "Hearts & Minds" was always the people doing the dropping.

Both the Taliban

You didn't get the memo? The US ran from Afghanistan with it's tail between it's legs, while the Taliban rules there and is now literally untouchable. The US's "steamrolling" isn't as impressive as you believe it to be.

“winning hearts and minds”

The US can't even win "hearts & minds" in Bumfucksville, Arizona any more.

Is Canada supposed to be afraid of a country that couldn't defeat Vietnamese rice farmers and Afghan goatherders?

I just discovered today that the Soviet army's boots were made by prison labor throughout the Cold War, and that never changed afterward. Just like the US army's kevlar helmets!

I'd rather not. Talking to liberals is migraine-inducing.

1. If you don't know what the term "radical" means, at least have the courtesy to not use it in sentences.

2. Blamed by WHOM?

3. "The Weimar Republic, Germany's 12-year experiment with ~~democracy~~ liberalism, came to an end after the Nazis came to power

FTFY. Liberalism is anti-democratic and inevitably leads to fascism when it fails to protect the capitalists' precious status quo.

“modern prohibitions of human trafficking in the United States have their roots in the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which barred slavery and involuntary servitude in 1865.”

Ummm, the 13th Amendment (supposedly) "barred" slavery, Counterpunch? Let's check quickly, shall we?

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Nope. Still looks to me like slavery is as perfectly legal and perfectly institutionalized in the US as ever.

But I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a tankie-loving rag such as Counterpunch will be perfectly fine with slave labor as long as Big Brother says it's okay.

but the right wingers insist it’s the “radical leftism” of social democracy.

That shouldn't surprise us. The capitalist order only allows for the existence of two (supposedly) opposing ideologies - liberalism and fascism - that in reality is complementary to each other when it comes to maintaining their precious status quo.

So it stands to reason that fascists should cast liberals as the "Radical Left!" - that's the ideology they are taking over from as liberalism is failing to maintain the status quo. It's failing in it's role as "good cop."

Biden is a right-winger. Liberalism is right-wing, and has never been anything else.

With US out of NATO, it is a point closer to Europe to threaten Europe.

The US has Britain, which is essentially a US client state these days.

ushering in the last 16 years of radicalization

Accepting fascism is "radical" now?