Simone Weil is 34 and she knows she is dying. She has left New-York which she thought was a good stop before going back to Europe. Via London, where she was intent on promoting her plan for a Corps of Frontline Nurse, or being sent on a parachuted mission to France, with the Resistance. Either way she was seeking mortal danger because this was the only way she knew to share the burden of war with occupied and massacred populations of the world. None of her death plans worked out though. She was left to waste away in England then? This would never be. Simone, in the few months she spent there, Simone Weil managed to excerpt herself from the jaws of her religious contemplation and to be given the task of reading and commenting on lots of research papers and drafts from the Conseil de la Résistance whose ultimate goal, once France would be liberated, was to establish a new French political régime, based on a very progressive Constitution with powerful democratic principles of social and economic justice.

In my reading, last night, Simone’s latest work concerns [quote from Pétrement’s biography of Simone Weil]:

<< ... on one hand the structure of the government and on the other the creation of a party that would be called the 'Revolutionary Group of French Republicans' and would have been composed solely of people from the Resistance, considers that the chart for the government's structure is very good, but as for the rest, "these people are completely, exclusively, and consciously Fascists. ... unadulterated fascism." ... They admit that they want to seize power by violence ... The cynicism with which all this is presented is scarcely believable ... >>

Let’s say that here Simone is describing developments from the Second World War. But she is also showing that there is a similar logical chain linking the principles or lack thereof held by politicians then and now, and the ensuing governing practices. That is why, 70 years after WWII and after Simone, one can affirm that Trump and every member of his government is an unadulterated fascist!