The very facy the Dems won in an election is a demonstration that they weren’t battling fascists yet.
Trump and crew literally attempted to overturn the election and the Dems did next to nothing. If we can’t recognize fascist actors before they’ve fully seized control of government then we will never have effective resistance to these types of movements.
The top quote is refering to borders as a state construction. Nobody denies the existence of boundaries between things in general