As he laid it out at Davos, Carney’s prescription for avoiding fascist chaos is more of the same conservative capitalism that accelerates fascism: tax cuts, deregulation, fast-tracked investment in oil, AI, and minerals, and new trading blocs with the more stable “middle powers.”

He’s not talking about or taking action domestically to support labour unions, redistribution, social safety nets, or anti-racist and democratic protections. 

Carney’s calm, paternal style makes his status quo vision emotionally appealing to liberals seeking stability. Antifascism cannot be a gentler version of domination. We don’t need a kinder patriarch inside the sweatshop. We need politics and parental figures that lead us out of it.

CODA: Alex Pretti was a hero, but the straightforward normalcy of his decent actions tell us something about the contested territory of masculinity in this fascist era.

Notes:

Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems
Jessica Hauser (friend of Alex Pretti) statement.

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Chapters

• (00:00:08) - Carney's New Medicine, Same as the Old
• (00:06:21) - Trudeau and Mark Carney: Secure Attachment?
• (00:20:43) - Alex Pretti: The Normalcy of Heroism