• 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
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    Scholarly consensus that some president is fascist?

    Fascism is a precise term for a specific political movement. not some “I don’t like this” adjective

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      Trump is the president who happens to be the leading figure of MAGA movement and Project 2025, which are unquestionably fascist movements, and seeing as how his administration deliberately ignore court rulings and thereby undermining civil liberties, which is the key characteristic of fascism.

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        key characteristic of fascism

        That’s not true and even a glance at first encyclopaedia you can get your hands on can disprove this. This is a very broad characteristic of many ideologies such as Bolshevism

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          “Red fascist” is a term used pejoratively, you know? Are you saying Trump is a Bolshevik instead?

          While both are authoritarians, one of the difference between Bolshevism/communism and fascism is that the latter embraces ultraconservatism and romanticising an idyllic past, whereas communists don’t. Trump and co. yearns back to some idyllic past and a return to it in some form. One of the definition of fascism is romanticising some glorious past when their people and things were “better”.

          Edit: added info