New book club meets the last Tuesday of each month at 1:30 at RCDP Headquarters. May’s book selection is fairly short and is available in paperback. “How Fascism Works” by Jason Stanley and will meet May 27th, 1:30 pm, at RCDP HQ, 1504 W. Innes STreet, Salisbury, NC. If you haven’t read the book you are still welcome to come and listen in.

About the book – “The normalization of the fascist myth “makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been”, Stanley writes. “By contrast the word ‘fascist’ has acquired a feeling of the extreme, like crying wolf.”

The assertion that immigrants are responsible for social ills that threaten to ruin a once-great nation, for example, might represent run-of-the-mill racism or xenophobia. His book’s subtitle is after all “The Politics of Us and Them”. But the idea is also drawn from a blueprint shared by the most robust fascistic regimes in recent history.” – from the Guardian, October 2018.