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> 
> On the other issue, I think Pynchon has used the terms "fascism" and
> "fascist" in reference to the USA and its leaders (and wartime Great Britain
> in the Orwell 'Intro' as well, for example) often enough now to grant that
> he thinks it's apt to do so, and that comparisons between Hitler and
> Roosevelt, or Pol Pot and Kissinger, are valid ones. It's not necessary to
> applaud his loose appropriation of these terms, of course, or the corollary
> trivialisation of historical genocides it implies.
> 
> best


I disagree. I don't think P ever calls the USA a Fascist nation state. 
Where does he do that?