Zunächst eine Rückblende: 

The banality of fascism was highlighted in the decades following the Second World War, when anti-colonial thinkers identified the terrifying parallels between the supposed historical novelty of European fascism and the colonialism that long pre-dated it. In 1950, Aimé Césaire, the Martinican poet, playwright (and later, politician), declared that the quotidian barbarism of colonisation had “ensavaged” Europe, so much so that Europeans became immune to their own barbarity: “And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a powerful choc en retour: the gestapos are busy, the prisons are filling up, the torturers around the racks invent, refine and discuss.” Ten years later, Frantz Fanon asked: “What is fascism but colonialism amid the traditionally colonial countries?”

Mann liefert dazu Argumente wie von Michał Kalecki, dass "Faschismus immer die radikalste Lösung für den drohenden kapitalistischen Zusammenbruch versprochen habe", kurz Stabilität, denn in einer Demokratie wisse man nicht, wie die nächste Regierung sein werde. Und in Zeiten des Klimawandels nehmen Unsicherheiten nur zu. Mann verweist auf Frankreich und den sogenannten "grünen" Flügel des Rassemblement National. 

This uncertainty produces fears, even expectations, of a dark age. Climate-induced scarcities, mass migrations and desperation will only intensify existing trends and disorders: Europe’s far-right ethno-nationalist parties vie for power; demagogues rule in India, Brazil and Russia; totalitarianism consolidates itself in Xi Jinping’s China; and unabashed white supremacy saturates the US Republican Party. 

Hoffen wir, dass der Autor sich irrt. Lesenswert sind seine Gedankengänge alle mal.