Is This how fascism comes to America?
No Way! We’re WAY too educated and enlightened for that right?! Plus, america is a democracy, that could never happen in a democracy…..
Not so fast…read the beautifully historic piece written by Robert Kagan of the Brookings Institute in the Washington Post below:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-how-fascism-comes-to-america/2016/05/17/c4e32c58-1c47-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
When finished, reflect on the following questions:
- Are the historical based arguments Kagan uses valid? Why or why not?
- Can you think of other historical arguments that would be appropriate that Kagan left out?
- What are some important distinguishing factors that Kagan left out of his historical examples?
- Do you agree with his thesis?