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What does it really mean to call Trump a "fascist"?

What does it really mean to call Trump a "fascist"?

Update: 2024-10-31
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The term “fascist” has been lobbed at Donald Trump since he entered the race for president in 2015 with talk of Mexican rapists and drug dealers. 

Now the label has become central to the argument against Trump in the closing days of this year’s election. 

It’s been used to describe him by his former chief of staff John Kelly, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley and Vice President Kamala Harris

Jason Stanley is a philosophy professor at Yale University. He’s the author of the 2018 book How Fascism Works. His latest is Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future. He joins Diane to talk about what fascism is and why voters should care. 

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What does it really mean to call Trump a "fascist"?

What does it really mean to call Trump a "fascist"?

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