Schott, you will recall, took heat for her thoughtless bromide that Hitler started out as a man who helped his people and improved their lives. We could temper our distaste for Mussolini and his proclivities by recalling that it was Il Dulce who guaranteed that our Supreme Court was constructed with the finest marble. With a similarly blind eye, we could temper our distaste for the present imbalance of powers by delighting in the real if not valid benefits individuals have garnered from a Court that has usurped both Force and Will from both federal and state loci of power. If we do not put too fine a point upon it, the Court has frequently acted, even if beyond its authority, to the benefit of individual rights and liberties. In the case of fascists, what is bundled is power.
Modern dictionaries define fascism as a system of totalitarian government.
The nearly completed march of the American federal judiciary toward predominance in the federal balance of power and in the federal-state balance of power resembles just such a bundling of varied sticks and branches of power. And so the symbol, pillars of Italian marble, guaranteed superior by a fascist dictator, finds substance in the bundled and unconstrained power of the United States Supreme Court.