We are now at the stage where expanding the death toll is advocated openly.

Eight days ago I wrote a diary titled "From Fascism to Exterminism," in which I laid out the idea of exterminism. Here's E.P. Thompson again:

Around the time of the 2016 election it became popular to revive the word "fascism." Trump was a fascist, we were told. No, I argued, Trump isn't a fascist. A fascist would disdain democracy; Trump is bad, but he's not quite there yet, and besides, "fascism" is a word belonging to an earlier period of history, a period of expanding capitalism. Our period is one of declining capitalism.