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Experts and commentators use overlapping but distinct definitions of “dictator”: classical definitions emphasize a single ruler exercising unchecked, centralized power often through force or legal sus...
Antifa traces its lineage to anti-fascist activism in 1920s–1940s Europe but today functions as a . Scholarship and contemporary reporting agree Antifa is a broad anti-fascist tendency with local grou...
Fascism is a modern, militant form of right‑wing nationalism that elevates the state or nation above the individual, centers power in a single leader or party, and enforces social and economic control...
Antifa traces its lineage to interwar European anti-fascist movements—especially Italian and German resistance in the 1920s–1930s—and to later revivals in postwar Europe and the U.S., with modern Amer...
Fascist ideology, as described across the provided analyses, centers on an authoritarian, nationalist politics that subordinates the individual to a powerful state or leader, rejects liberal democracy...
Propaganda is described across the supplied analyses as a central instrument in fascist regimes for manufacturing consent, cultivating , and mobilizing mass loyalty through media, culture, and institu...
Antifa is not a single organization but a decentralized and loose movement made up of independent activists and groups who oppose fascism, racism and far‑right movements; this characterization is cons...
Executive Summary Antifa is portrayed across the supplied reporting as a rather than a hierarchical organization, and its own definitional boundaries for “fascism” vary, with critics and supporters di...
Antifa traces its intellectual and symbolic lineage to interwar European anti‑fascist movements—movements such as Italy’s Arditi del Popolo and Germany’s Antifaschistische Aktion of the early 1930s—wh...
Scholars and commentators widely describe a core of Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters as forming a “personality cult”: recent peer‑reviewed research identifies a distinct, highly loyal subgroup who...
Comparisons between Donald Trump’s rhetoric and media use and historical strongmen such as Mussolini, Hitler, or contemporary authoritarians like Vladimir Putin appear frequently in reporting and scho...
Antifa is real in the sense that a exists: individuals and local groups who oppose fascism, white supremacy, and far‑right organizing through a mix of community organizing, online monitoring, public p...
Scholars treat fascism not as a single, simple label but as a contested cluster of features—violent, exclusionary nationalism, charismatic authoritarian leadership, suppression of opposition, and mass...
Scholars and commentators are sharply divided: many label Donald Trump’s politics and actions “authoritarian” or “fascist,” while others say that description is imprecise and prefer terms like “illibe...
Scholars and commentators use multiple checklists to define fascism — common features include a cult of the “people” led by a dominant leader, aggressive nationalism, suppression of opposition, parami...
The Antifa phenomenon traces to , especially German and Italian movements whose name derived from "antifaschistisch," and reappeared in later 20th-century contexts and U.S. local networks; contemporar...
Roger Griffin defines fascism as “palingenetic ultranationalism,” a theory that locates fascism’s driving force in a mythic promise of national rebirth combined with radical ultranationalism and mass ...
Fascist regimes habitually moved from legal discrimination and political exclusion to organized mass violence through a sequence of demonization, institutional dismantling, radical legislation, and wa...
Fascism is a contested political concept with core features scholars and dictionaries repeatedly identify: intense ultranationalism, leader-centred authoritarianism, suppression of opposition, and soc...
Fascist propaganda differs from other political propaganda in degree and design: it systematically fuses a cult of the leader, mythic national rebirth, and institutionalized censorship to produce a to...