A father’s fascism

Family Life | America Out Loud News · Feb 9, 2026 · 57m

Cutting Through the Chaos with Wallace Garneau – I trace a question my father never resolved: how fascism takes hold without people noticing. Drawing on history, economics, and my own military experience, I argue that America did not narrowly avoid fascism, but absorbed it quietly through bureaucracy, centralized planning, and the illusion of democratic control long before most were willing to see it...