Since Trump’s election in 2016, much ink has been spilled over the nature of the American right. How does the MAGA movement’s success compare to the rise of Nazism? What can we learn from historical analogies? Has fascism taken hold in the United States? These debates were recently reignited by the publication of an edited collection by historian Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America.

This week’s reading list extends the conversation with BR’s deep archive on the fascism question—including Alberto Toscano and Charisse Burden-Stelly on Black radicalism’s theory of American fascism; Noam Chomsky and Prabhat Patnaik on today’s fascist formations; G. M. Tamás’s prescient analysis of “post-fascism”; Gerald Horne’s long view of U.S. history as counterrevolution; Thomas Pynchon’s underappreciated antifascist novel; and much more.