Kristol explains:

"The first feature of Ur-Fascism is the cult of tradition," he writes, which implies "the rejection of the modern world."
"Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism."

"For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason."

"Ur-Fascism grows up and seeks for consensus by exploiting and exacerbating the natural fear of difference. The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders."

"Ur-Fascism derives from individual or social frustration."

"At the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia."

"The Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters. This is the origin of machismo. . . . Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons"doing so becomes an ersatz phallic exercise."

"Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning."
Sound familiar?

His advice for those in MAGA?

If you're a MAGA supporter: Rethink your attachment to a movement to which, for various reasons, you became attracted. Its fascist elements"even its fascist core"are now evident. It's not something of which you should want to be a part. Leave it.

If you're a MAGA fellow traveler: Stop rationalizing, stop justifying, stop enabling it.

If you're trying to stay neutral: Stop acquiescing, stop ducking, stop evading responsibility.

If you're a MAGA opponent: Oppose the movement firmly and resolutely by all peaceful and political means. Defeat it.