Christopher Mathias > Quotes

“John was determined to make Network 8 one of the best in the nation. He wanted to gather as many “trophies” as possible”
― Christopher Mathias, To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right

“Blaming anarchists and antifa”
― Christopher Mathias, To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right

“The Proud Boys were explicitly violent”
― Christopher Mathias, To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right

“bully’ as a synonym for ‘fascist’ ” was “about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come.”
― Christopher Mathias, To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right

“It feels urgent to tell American antifa’s story because in so many ways: Antifa was right.”
― Christopher Mathias, To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right

“fascism is exceptional for its fetishization of violence”
― Christopher Mathias, To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right

“I think of fascism as a right-wing politics of domination that is hostile to democracy, often taking the form of ultranationalism, situating a particular group of people atop a social hierarchy, while targeting already marginalized groups for death, violence, and expulsion, in order to “cleanse” or “purify” the nation, restoring it to a mythical past of ethnic and cultural homogeneity. In the American context in particular, “fascist” is often synonymous with “white supremacist,” the two terms essentially joined at the hip.”
― Christopher Mathias, To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right