‘The US can still become a fascist country’: Frances Fox Piven’s midterms postmortem

The 90-year-old sociologist on vengeance politics', cruelty and climate change as she looks back on half a century of activism

Frances Fox Piven has a warning for America. Don't get too relaxed, there could be worse to come.

I don't think this fight over elemental democracy is over, by any means," she said. The United States was well on the road to becoming a fascist country - and it still can become a fascist country."