from a newsletter i get.
Historians: He’s a fascist
Political scientists: He’s a fascist
His own aides: He’s a fascist
The NYT: He shows a wistful longing for a bygone era of global politics.
This is where the Wittgensteinian idea of family resemblances is useful, I think. In the checklist of Fascist-like characteristics, each fascist may not tick every single box, and there won't be a hard barrier between fascist/not-fascist.
That enables you to place someone like Juan Peron, who...
...that.
What I'm (genuinely) interested in is your take on why
given your assertion that
In your opinion, why did they "just" vote for a fascist*, this time, if they've always been fascist? What changed? What was it that stopped the USA electing a fascist before?
*and in 2016, I presume...
There were Jews in the Italian fascist movement, as detailed here:
Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur - Simon Dubnow
nation-building concepts that create in- and out-groups need not literally involve ideas of 'blood'.
That being the case, why didn't America vote for a fascist in 2020? Or 2012, 2008, etc?
Given that in those elections a fascist didn't win, what is the difference between those elections and this one?
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