Fascism came back. The past year and a half has been a strange time in human history, when voters across Europe and North America showed a sudden passion for terrifying latent blood-and-soil rhetoric. Last year saw the UK vote for Brexit and the US elect Donald Trump, while far-right candidates took office all over Europe. No pundits saw it coming, and most of us just had to sit and watch, appalled, while dog-whistling goons seized power across the universe. Suddenly, it began to look like a cresting wave. Maybe that wave is dying down now; the most prominent far-right candidates in Europe lost their national elections this year. But the people who were elected are still in power, and we're going to have to deal with their bullshit for years. In the United States, Nazis are marching in city streets while Trump and his associates are doing whatever they can to deport and disenfranchise anyone who isn't white. And so one of the most effective pieces of art I've heard lately is one that calls back to the last time this happened, the last time the fascists grabbed power around the world and fed humanity's darkest impulses. It didn't go well.