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Fascists were the ultimate aura farmer. An aesthetic that was meant to hypnotize the public. Now we got ghibli-fied, shitposting clowns posing with chainsaws. What happened? To understand the "New Aesthetics of Fascism" we have to explore its "traditional" Aesthetics. Only by doing so we can recognize the parallels and especially the lost aura fascism once had.
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