Ian Baruma explores in today's Observer whether the Tangerine Tyrant is a fascist (and the US is becoming a fascist state).
He concludes that (as always) its difficult to finally & firmly define racism, but if not fascistic then the difference is only really a matter of degree....
[The Observer are claiming the whole article is free to read (in front of their paywall) so you can access it here:
https://observer.co.uk/news/politics/article/the-age-of-american-fascism ]
If not fascist, why fascist shape?
to get all academic about it.
its a sort of Q. from Wittgenstein about meaning; in the late-Wittgenstein he makes an argument about definitions being sorts of clusters (his example is defining the word 'game'), and so defining fascist is difficult because its been used for so many, at least partly dissimilar regimes & political leaders.... so defining it at anything other than a relatively high level of abstraction can be difficult; but this is not to say the word is meanginess!
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Wulfy—Speaker to the machines