So what’s the logic here? That they kept it up there to fuck with your head, as a semi-secret sign that they’re fascist? That’s anti-materialist thinking, little different than anti-Masonists seeing the eye pyramid on a dollar bill and imagining a vast conspiracy from it.

Let’s say that there was a proposal to take the fasces down- what would the case be? That Mussolini’s use of the fasces imbues it with a transcendental evil that reaches back in time and taints it as a symbol before he even used it? From the perspective of the political class, the whole debate would likely be tiresome and not worth having.

If the US is or becomes fascist, it’s going to have very little to do with some old ornaments in the House of Representatives, it’s going to be because of material conditions.