![]() ![]() And that was at the heart of what Mussolini and Hitler promised. What are they?There’s the claim that the United States is in decline and needs a strong leader. Well, there’s language and there’s style and manner that has echoes of the fascism of Europe in the 1920s and the ‘30s. What’s happening now, that the term fascism is surfacing in American politics? CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS INTERVIEW ON THE ‘PATT MORRISON ASKS’ PODCAST> Paxton is a history professor emeritus at Columbia University and author of the book “The Anatomy of Fascism.” He explains whether Trump is a textbook-definition fascist, or just seems to play one on television. But apart from Hitler himself, which is who people have in mind, what, really, does the word fascist mean? Robert O. “Fascist.” It’s just about the foulest insult in the political thesaurus, and lately Donald Trump’s been hearing it about himself from people as different as George Clooney, a former president of Mexico, comedian Louis C.K, and Anne Frank’s stepsister. ![]()
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