Fascism is the perennial twin shadow of liberal democracies

Evidence

As my investigation has worn on, this is the form of doppelganger that increasingly preoccupies me: the fascist clown state that is the ever-present twin of liberal Western democracies, perpetually threatening to engulf us in its fires of selective belonging and ferocious despising. The figure of the doppelganger has been used for centuries to warn us of these shadow versions of our collective selves, of these monstrous possible futures. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 36

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the reader’s interest in how doubling becomes an analytic instrument — nation-as-self/double echoes the individual doppelganger framing. — connects to: Fascism emerges organically from liberalism within a single capitalist social order — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 403; Liberal austerity and fascist repression converged in a shared coercive project — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1070