The horror over Trump is that he is part of movementd we have seen before. The movement, called fascism under Mussolini and populism uder Hugo Chavez, is misunderstood because of Hitler’s version that conflated racism with state corporatism and nationalism. Mussolini’s fascism, the original entity, is a toxic mix of nationalism, unification of state and corporate power, and populism led by a demagogue.
That fascism, whether called communism, state corporatism, or any other name movement is growing across the world .. from China to Russia, the Philippines, Hungary, France, Cuba, Venezuela and now here.
THE GUARDIAN: The US elected its most dangerous leader
Today the United States – the country that had, from its birth, seen itself as a beacon that would inspire the world, a society that praised itself as “the last best hope of earth”, the nation that had seemed to be bending the arc of history towards justice, as Barack Obama so memorably put it on this same morning eight years ago – has stepped into the abyss, writes Jonathan Freedland.
The US has elected its most dangerous leader. We all have plenty to fear
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