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As I said, this only works when you redefine fascism to mean anything to the right of Mikhail Bakunin.

And fascism is, itself, a very slippery term. There’s not a single definition or checklist that has universal or even near-universal support among academics. It’s like defining a cult; Dr. Steven Hassan has a long checklist of items, but not all of those are present in every cult, and some of those behaviours only become dangerous signs when taken to an extreme.

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fascism its self is not a very slippery term, there are maybe 3 academic definitions of fascism, these are incredibly similar to each other, and are in some cases literally only semantically different, these are almost universally supported by academics (as long as you ignore the people literally calling for eugenics and ethnostates)

and yes, just because someone or a group may match one point on these definitions doesn’t make them fascist, but when they routinely fall under the vast majority of fascist traits, they just might be… fascist

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fascism its self is not a very slippery term, there are maybe 3 academic definitions of fascism,

Cite your sources.

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Umberto Eco

Ian Kershaw

Robert Paxton

but you won’t be satisfied by this, will you? no, nothing can satisfy you, because I indirectly called you fascist, and instead of maybe doing some self reflection, that maybe just maybe, the actions and rhetoric of the republicans has been fascist, you need to double down, because at some point in time, you were a republican and can’t imagine yourself supporting something evil. Well, surprise, many Germans didn’t know what kind of evil they supported until it got total power.

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