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Originally Posted by elphenor
Fascism is vague if you're expecting it to be a coherent political ideology which it's not
but understanding historical fascism pretty perfectly makes sense of the Trump phenomenon and even Brexit
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Yup. Trump is not really a successful fascist as he hasn't actually seized the power a fascist would want but he most definitely uses fascist means like right wing populism to scare monger against the left, minorities, and a perceived loss of majority power and pride against shadow enemies.