> You call it for what it is: an executive with authoritarian tendencies.

I think you misunderstand fascism. Fascism is not gassing certain minority group of people in concentration camps, that's called crimes against humanity. It might be an endgame to fascism if you are government that is allowed to commit those crimes without consequences, but the road to it is still fascism regardless whether you historically know how it ends. Calling press "the enemy of the people" as Trump did (also known as "Lügenpresse") IS a form of fascism. You don't need to push Democrats and immigrants into gas chambers to be full blown fascist. Overwhelming amount of actions taken by this democratic government ARE what most historians call fascism.

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epolanski 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> I think you misunderstand fascism.

I think you're projecting.

Fascism, in political science, has some clear requirements: a government that controls all branches of power, lack of elections and effective ban of free speech and other political parties.

It also requires ideological aspects such as nationalism and far right politics, otherwise fascism would apply to far left dictatorships which didn't have these traits.

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kergonath 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And how do you call someone who advocates for the advent of such a government? A fascist. Which Trump and the MAGA right clearly are.

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joering2 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I suggest to learn what projecting means.

You really going to say that Trump and his Administration does not control all branches of power?

During Third Reich neither press was banned nor elections. Look it up, Google is still free to research. Unless of course you want to endup at conclusion that Nazism and Third Reich wasn't fascism.

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unmole 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> You really going to say that Trump and his Administration does not control all branches of power?

That must be why the Supreme Court struck down the primary piece of Trump's economic agenda.

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joering2 an hour ago | parent [-]

And what did it change? NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. Tariffs are still here - this morning I accepted DHL package and had to pay it - and even if - Trump/Vence already said its actually good because we will use another vehicle which will allow us to continue collect the money. So it won't be called tariff - it will be called embargo fee. So yes, Trump continues to control all branches, one way or another.

It’s ridiculous, but it’s OK. Because we have other ways, numerous other ways,” the president said. “The numbers can be far greater than the hundreds of billions we’ve already taken in.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/business/supreme-court-tr...

	▲	unmole 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The nature of tariffs has fundamentally changed. Imports from all countries are subject to the same 15% rate which means no more deals or wielding tariffs as a punishment.