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Fascism in the United States

The presence of fascist characteristics and warning signs in the United States, particularly in relation to Project 2025 and the federal government's actions

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Jan 15, 2026
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Is Trump turning America into nazi germany?

The claim that "Trump is turning America into Nazi Germany" is an alarm bell, not a neutral historical diagnosis: journalists, historians and public figures have drawn parallels between some Trump-era...

Jan 7, 2026
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How do scholars define fascism and how do those definitions apply to modern U.S. political movements?

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...

Jan 12, 2026
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How long do you believe it will take until the US if in full Holocaust mode?

The United States is not on an inevitable, short runway to a state that would carry out genocide on the scale of the Holocaust, but multiple experts and scholars warn of real authoritarian and fascist...

Feb 4, 2026

How have historians defined the difference between fascism, Nazism, and illiberal democracy in contemporary U.S. politics?

Historians treat as a distinct, historically rooted far‑right, anti‑liberal movement defined by violent ultranationalism, single‑party rule, mass mobilization, and the subordination of individuals to ...

Jan 10, 2026

Which contemporary U.S. social movements or organizations have been analyzed in peer‑reviewed literature as fascist or fascism‑adjacent, and on what evidence?

Contemporary peer‑reviewed scholarship and specialist journals have analyzed both historical U.S. movements (notably the Ku Klux Klan and interwar “proto‑fascist” groups) and contemporary formations—m...