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American historian and cultural critic
Multiple analyses characterize a range of President Trump’s actions and rhetoric as aligning with authoritarian or fascist patterns: these include efforts to concentrate executive power, attacks on in...
Scholars, journalists, activists and think‑tanks disagree sharply on whether the United States “is fascist now.” Some analysts and advocacy groups characterize the Trump administration and Project 202...
Coverage shows multiple Democrats and prominent Democratic-aligned figures have described Donald Trump’s behavior or agenda as “fascist,” “authoritarian,” or likened it to Nazi Germany — with some ind...
Multiple public commentators, scholars, and advocacy groups have described aspects of Donald Trump’s rhetoric and governance as or reflective of “fascist” tendencies, but direct, on-the-record instanc...
Historians and scholars have produced credible, repeated arguments that , including exclusionary nationalism, creation of enemies, and appeals to authoritarian strength, as articulated by figures such...
Multiple contemporary sources show that Donald Trump has been widely labeled “fascist” or accused of exhibiting “fascistic” tendencies by journalists, scholars, politicians and opinion writers, especi...
Video from a January 20, 2025 inauguration rally shows Elon Musk place his right hand to his chest and then extend his right arm twice in an upward diagonal; many viewers and politicians called the mo...
Scholarly surveys and multiple reports in the supplied material conclude that elements of Donald Trump’s rhetoric, policy proposals, and governing practices have been characterized as , while at least...
Scholars and commentators are sharply divided over whether elements of U.S. partisan politics mirror historical fascist movements: several analysts point to Project 2025/Agenda 47, erosion of judicial...
Elon Musk twice extended his right arm from his chest during a speech at a Trump inauguration event on January 20, 2025; multiple news outlets and historians said the motion resembled a Nazi or fascis...
Critics and scholars have compared Donald Trump to a range of historical monarchs and authoritarian figures—most commonly Benito Mussolini, Viktor Orbán, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and, rhetorically, a kin...
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...
A compact roster of scholars dominates contemporary and historical debates about fascism: Robert Paxton, Roger Griffin, Emilio Gentile, George L. Mosse, Ian Kershaw, Ruth Ben‑Ghiat, and a cluster of h...
Scholars and analysts increasingly describe ism as "": a political formation that exhibits core fascistic tendencies—palingenetic nationalism, eliminationist rhetoric, normalization of political viole...
Scholars and commentators have identified specific lines in several of Donald Trump’s speeches and posts that they describe as echoing fascist rhetoric, pointing to language that dehumanizes opponents...
Historians of 1930s Europe treat comparisons between Mussolini/Hitler and contemporary right‑wing movements such as Trumpism as analytically useful but contested: many identify thematic echoes—demagog...
Coverage in the provided material shows many commentators and some Democratic-aligned figures have compared Donald Trump to fascists or invoked Nazi-era imagery, but explicit, attributable public stat...
The claim that “the parallels between Germany 1929–45 and current politics are striking and should be explored” is partially supported by scholars who identify patterns of democratic erosion and autho...
Elon Musk publicly denied that his hand gesture was a deliberate Nazi salute, describing it as an enthusiastic, unintentional motion and urging critics to use “better dirty tricks,” while some civil-s...
The question " a fascist?" divides scholars, journalists, and politicians: many observers and experts point to fascistic patterns in his rhetoric, statecraft, and policy proposals, while others say th...