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Country First. Hmm?...

O.K., so as THEIR slogan's coming together. The lead line is "Country First." While intended to communicate a unifying principle that nationalism comes before politics, it also recalls a classic fascist tenet better described as something like 'chauvinism before intellectualism.' Here's what Umberto Eco writes about this tact: "In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, 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..." Further on in this essay by Eco entitled "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt," (published in 1995) the author lists attribute number seven as "To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism say...