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1933 and the Definition of Fascism
Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’…
Now the response from some folks is going to be anger that I am even asking this question and demands for me to ‘stay in my lane.’ To which I must remind them that the purpose of history and historians is, as Thucydides put it, is to offer “an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the understanding of the future, which in the course of human affairs must resemble if it does not reflect it” (Thuc. Via Wikipedia, photograph of the Reichstag firemen work to put out the flames.Mussolini and Hitler have become such bywords for evil in general conversation, peers to the Dark Lord Sauron or Frieza, that they need to be demystified to a significant degree to be useful for understanding human affairs and our momentum because these men did not appear suddenly as the villains we now know them to be. Instead, the Heritage Foundation, part of the Trumpist fascist movement, has spent the last four years preparing up with a plan to fire huge portions of the federal civil service(who are not political, at-will appointees) and vetting thousands of resumes to find cadres of modern American brownshirts to fill the jobs so that Trump’s impulses are not so constrained.
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