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When Do You Call It Fascism?

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Is It Time To Call Trump The F-Word? Contemporary scholars of fascism caution against explicitly labeling Trump a fascist. But they point to the erosion underway during his presidency... I wonder, what are these scholars waiting for Trump to do, what line does he have to cross, before they're willing to apply the word in earnest? You can argue about exactly what "fascism" means, and people have. You can argue about whether your favorite definition exactly describes Trump and his tactics, and those of his supporters. But whatever you call that, it ain't democracy, and I can't immediately think of a term that is a better fit. "We are still in a democracy and he cannot get away with it but he seems to keep trying," Federico Finchelstein, a historian at the New School and author of A Brief History of Fascist Lies , told Today’s WorldView. I like that. "We are still in a democracy". By what standard? It's only a democracy so long as most people...