Sure, it’s a long read, but you will be in a much better position to answer that question, and better able to understand the fascist strands in our own history:
“When Americans think of dictators they always think of some foreign model,” wrote the anti-fascist journalist Dorothy Thompson in the mid-1930s, but an American dictator would be “one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American.” And the American people, Thompson added...
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Timothy Snyder is the leading American historian on the history of fascism in the 20th century. He recently pointed out, in a Washington Post commentary, how the basic Trump campaign strategy appears to be a good representation of fascist propoganda:
“A fascist guide to commentary on elections would have eight parts: contradict yourself to test the faith of your followers; tell a big lie to draw attention from basic realities; manufacture a crisis; designate enemies; make an appeal to pride and humiliation; express hostility to voting; cast doubt on democratic procedures; and aim for personal power.”
