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Displaying all articles tagged:
Fascism
elon musk
Jan. 21, 2025
The Gesture Elon Musk Should Make Now: Denouncing Fascism
If DOGE’s edgelord wasn’t making a fascist gesture to celebrate Trump’s inauguration, he could clear it up by denouncing those who make such gestures.
By
Ed Kilgore
early and often
Sept. 18, 2024
Vance Scolds Dems for ‘Fascist’ Jab, Which Trump Uses Often
J.D. Vance said we must stop saying “one candidate is a fascist.” His running mate used the term for Kamala Harris repeatedly.
By
Ed Kilgore
early and often
Nov. 28, 2023
Conservative Christian Affection for Fascists Predates Trump
Anyone shocked by Christian Trump voters’ tolerance for his increasingly authoritarian rhetoric and policies should look to European history.
By
Ed Kilgore
politics
Oct. 12, 2022
How to Make a Semi-Fascist Party
The hostile, paranoid, and increasingly authoritarian path ahead for American conservatism.
By
Jonathan Chait
christianity
Oct. 30, 2021
Are Conservative Christians the Real ‘Secularists’ Now?
In their subordination of religion to cultural and political conservatism, many believers are pursuing power more than righteousness.
By
Ed Kilgore
trumpism
July 14, 2021
Is It Finally Time to Begin Calling Trumpism Fascism?
The abrupt lurch of MAGA into opposition to democracy and celebration of insurrection is a new development.
By
Ed Kilgore
marjorie taylor greene
July 7, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene Compares Liberals to Nazis — Again
After apologizing for comparing COVID-19 measures to the Holocaust, MTG is still calling vaccinators “medical brownshirts.”
By
Ed Kilgore
republicans
Mar. 31, 2021
The Rotten Core of Republican Appeals to the Working Class
Republicans are embracing the perilous tradition of producerism, offering working-class voters a mix of nativism, protectionism, and culture war.
By
Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Dec. 30, 2019
My Existential Dread of 2020
The long-awaited reckoning with Trumpism is about to arrive.
By
Ed Kilgore
donald trump
July 17, 2019
Trump’s ‘Love It Or Leave It’ Jingoism Was Predictable All Along
Ross Douthat’s suggestion that Trump perverted an initially healthy skepticism about American virtue misses the authoritarian impulses he represents.
By
Ed Kilgore
the national interest
June 20, 2019
Trump and the Rhetoric of Fascism
Why is it worse for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to call Trump a fascist than for Trump to advocate fascism?
By
Jonathan Chait
fox news
Feb. 14, 2019
Fox News Refuses to Air Ad for Oscar-Nominated Anti-Fascism Doc During
Hannity
An ad for the doc
A Night at the Garden
– which features uncut footage of marching American Nazis – will only run in L.A., not nationally.
By
Matt Stieb
Dec. 28, 2017
How to Maintain Your Sense of Proportion in the Trump Era
The closer we get to the 2018 and 2020 elections, the less sense it makes to treat Trump’s very presence as an intolerable, outrageous scandal.
By
Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Nov. 29, 2017
Trump Continues to Cultivate the Republican Party’s Alliance With Fascism
Now he’s promoting a racist British thug.
By
Jonathan Chait
Mar. 17, 2017
Zut Alors: Bannon’s Taste for Franco-Fascists
For all the efforts being made to normalize Stephen Bannon, evidence keeps coming out of rather alien influences on the president’s chief strategist.
By
Ed Kilgore
July 21, 2016
Milo Yiannopoulos and the Gay Fascist Sophisticate
Milo Yiannopoulos has revived the old trope of the decadent, gay, fascist sophisticate. What does this tell us about our political moment?
By
Park MacDougald