{"id":7421,"date":"2024-11-06T19:02:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T06:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/?p=7421"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T04:53:47","slug":"incomprehensible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/incomprehensible\/","title":{"rendered":"Incomprehensible"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless you have been paying attention.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fascism_in_North_America<\/a><\/p>\n

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Donald Trump and Fascism<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
Main article: Donald Trump and fascism<\/a><\/div>\n
See also: Alt-right<\/a>, Political positions of Donald Trump<\/a>, Racial views of Donald Trump<\/a>, Radical right (United States)<\/a>, and Trumpism<\/a><\/div>\n

Some scholars have argued that the political style of Donald Trump<\/a> resembles the political style of fascist leaders. Such assessments were first made during Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign<\/a>,[<\/span>37]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>[<\/span>38]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> continuing over the course of the Trump presidency<\/a> as he appeared to court far-right extremists,[<\/span>39]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>[<\/span>40]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>[<\/span>41]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>[<\/span>42]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>including his attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election<\/a> after losing to Joe Biden<\/a>,[<\/span>43]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> and culminating in the 2021 United States Capitol attack<\/a>.[<\/span>44]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> As these events have unfolded, some commentators who had initially resisted applying the label to Trump came out in favor of it, including conservative legal scholar Steven G. Calabresi<\/a> and conservative commentator Michael Gerson<\/a>.[<\/span>45]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>[<\/span>46]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> After the attack on the Capitol, Robert O. Paxton<\/a>, a historian of fascism, went so far as to state that Trump is a fascist, despite his earlier objection to using the term in this way.[<\/span>47]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> In “Trump and the Legacy of a Menacing Past”, Henry Giroux<\/a>wrote: “The inability to learn from the past takes on a new meaning as a growing number of authoritarian regimes emerge across the globe. This essay argues that central to understanding the rise of a fascist politics in the United States is the necessity to address the power of language and the intersection of the social media and the public spectacle as central elements in the rise of a formative culture that produces the ideologies and agents necessary for an American-style fascism.”[<\/span>48]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>Other historians of fascism, such as Richard J. Evans<\/a>,[<\/span>49]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> Roger Griffin<\/a>, and Stanley Payne<\/a>, continue to disagree that fascism is an appropriate term to describe Trump’s politics.[<\/span>44]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> Jason Stanley<\/a> argued in 2018 that Trump uses “fascist techniques to excite his base and erode liberal democratic institutions”.[<\/span>50]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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