Fascism is as fascism does

What If It Is Fascism?

Discussions of whether Trumpism is fascist often lose sight of the political stakes of the issue. But like Italian and German fascism, MAGA reflects a political system failing to address capitalist crisis.

No, Trump is not a fascist. He is a hypercapitalist and just as dangerous

Trump wants to free big capital from the constraints of democracy by dismantling it.

Fascism is as fascism does

"Trump is not Hitler!" a Trump apologist once told me. Of course not. Hitler is long dead. But Hitler and Trump do have one thing in common. Trump too is a fascist.

Donald Trump is not an accident in history. His re-election is in line with a profound structural evolution in American society, which began at the end of the Cold War.

Is Trumpism a form of fascism? Two historians debate

Marc Lazar, a specialist in Benito Mussolini's Italy, believes the American president is establishing an illiberal democracy rather than true fascism. Conversely, Olivier Burtin a historian of the United States, argues that the similarities between Trump's politics and fascism are more significant than the differences.

The fascists are obsessed with fascism. Moreover, the fascists are against fascism. From a historical revisionism they look at Nazism and claim that this would have been an invention of communism; not only do today’s fascists not seem to be “anti-Jewish” because they explicitly embrace Zionism by erecting Israel as their model, but they pose as non-racist because they do not believe there is a problem of “races” since Blacks, Asians or Latinos o…