Greg Palast’s web page has the article Ethnic Votes Stolen in Crucial States Help Fix US Election For Trump Reveals Greg Palast.

As a response to constant paranoia about voter fraud, 30 mainly Republican states have adopted a system called the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program (Crosscheck), according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

This system was devised in 2005 by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, better known as the anti-immigration fanatic responsible for Trump’s idea of building a wall on the US / Mexico border and getting Mexico to pay for it. Kobach, like Trump, has given lip service to conspiracy theories, especially ones that bolster fears of the growing influence of racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. And now, interestingly he has been rewarded by Trump with a job on his Transition Team as adviser on immigration.

Palast also mentions other ways that votes were stolen. One of the ways he mentions, that I am much less certain about than he pretends to be is the discrepancy between exit polls and actual votes cast. In the world of political correctness, it might have been embarrassing to tell exit pollsters that you voted for Donald Trump. You have no reason to assume that the exit poll is more truthful than the vote count. Some statistics on ballot spoilage may be more of an indication of vote theft and it might also explain the exit poll discrepancies. I certainly don’t have the evidence nor the expertise to give a definitive opinion on this. All I have is skepticism about all stories.

It may be karma though that Hillary managed to rig the primaries to steal that election from Bernie, but Trump and the Republicans had better and more massive vote suppression and rigging techniques than Hillary used against Sanders. One thing is probably likely is that one vote thief isn’t going to ask for an investigation of another vote thief.

New Economic Perspectives has the article Krugman’s Failure to Speak Truth to Power about Austerity.

Ever since the birth of the New Democrats, their adherents have embraced austerity. This act of mutual economic and political self-destruction has become so core to their identity that Hillary unhesitatingly made it one her most important closing pitches during the last 40 days of her campaign against Trump. At the very moment when her pollsters were warning her that she could lose due to working class hostility, she chose to showcase her hostility to the working class by promising to inflict eight more years of austerity on them. In your face working class! This is a political strategy that has no upside, but a toxic downside. Despite intense criticism from progressives of her austerity threats, Paul Krugman never urged her publicly to promise to end austerity’s assault on the working class. Similarly, no one on her official campaign team had the courage and strength to tell her to stop and reverse her position.

This is exactly my beef with all Democrats who tried to sell us Hillary Clinton after Bernie Sanders dropped out. Elizabeth Warren I write off without hesitation because she caved to Hillary at exactly the strategic moment when she should have promoted Bernie Sanders. At the end, even Robert Reich, a firm supporter of Bernie Sanders, tried to sell us Hillary Clinton, when his previous statements showed that he full well knew the stupidity of Clinton’s austerity plan. Surely Bernie Sanders knew how bad the Clinton plan was. He lost all credibility when he tried to sell her to us.

On television shows about court trials, you often hear an opposing lawyer ask a witness who has admitted to lying, “Were you lying then, or are you lying now?” How can we ever trust someone that we know has lied to us? Sorry, Bernie, we only have trust in people with unblemished records for telling the truth.

Jared Paquette had a post that referred to The New York Review of Books article Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco, June 22, 1995 Issue.

But in spite of this fuzziness, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.

The article goes on to describe 14 features. What I like about the article is that it seems to explain why there are so many different descriptions of what fascism is.

The original article Jared pointed to is Umberto Eco Makes a List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism. This article adds some more modern examples to the 14 features than Eco could have written about in the original 1995 article. For someone of my age, it is hard to think of a 1995 article as being almost prehistoric.