New york times now9/14/2023 But the Trump presidency lacked any warlike, expansionist interest, and that made it decisively unlike 20th-century fascism. And Trumpism did exhibit distinct elements of the fascist style of politics: the inflammatory rallies the incessant mongering of fear, grievance, and victimization the casual endorsement of violence the pervasive embrace of conspiracy theories the performative cruelty the feral instinct for targeting marginalized and vulnerable minorities and the cult of personality. No question, Trump inflicted grave damage on our country’s political culture, stoking toxic polarization and reveling in dishonesty. Browning: How Hitler’s enablers undid democracy in Germany (That Chinese President Xi Jinping would construe the simultaneous abandonment of Ukraine and dismissal of Taiwan as anything other than a green light to invade the latter seems improbable.)Ĭhristopher R. He has disparaged Taiwan as a predator nation that stole microchip manufacturing from the U.S. He has railed against “globalists.” He has promised to settle the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in 24 hours by cutting off aid to Kyiv if President Volodymyr Zelensky does not reach an immediate settlement with Moscow-that is, capitulate to Putin. Trump has continued in the same isolationist vein in recent interviews and speeches. treaty obligations to NATO and South Korean allies that he deemed to be “delinquent” and getting a “free ride.” to withdrawal from Afghanistan, and petulantly sought to downgrade U.S. In his first term, he shamelessly abased himself before Russian President Vladimir Putin, exchanged “love letters” with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, signed the Doha Agreement with the Taliban committing the U.S. Trump has shown little ambition to pursue such aims. War was the crucible in which the new fascist man was to be forged territorial expansion was both the means and the end of fascist power and triumph. They were ardent militarists and imperialists. And in one very important respect, Trump differed sharply from the European fascists of the interwar period. I argued instead that Trump was more like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán or Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan than Hitler or Mussolini, and should be categorized as an “illiberal populist” rather than a fascist. Placing Trumpism in the same category seemed to me trivializing and misleading. These regimes combined totalitarian dictatorship, wars of imperial conquest, and outright genocide in the case of Hitler (of Jews, Slavs, Roma) or ethnic mass murder in Mussolini’s case (of Libyans, Ethiopians, Slovenes). I still deny that Trump’s presidency was fascist-but I’m concerned that if he wins another trip to the White House, he could earn the label.įascism was most fully exemplified by the regimes of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. I thought it had long been abused by casual, imprecise applications, and as a historian of Nazi Germany, I did not think Trumpism was anywhere close to crossing the threshold of that comparison. I was one of those who resisted using that term. Jemisin 17 'An Odyssey' by Daniel Mendelsohn 16 'Brotopia' by Emily Chang 15 'The Power' by Naomi Alderman 14 'The Wife' by Meg Wolitzer 13 'Heart' by Sandeep Jauhar 12 'There Will Be No Miracles Here' by Casey Gerald 11 'A Separation' by Katie Kitamura 10 'American Wolf' by Nate Blakeslee 9 'Earning the Rockies' by Robert D.For some years, a variety of news commentators and academics have called Donald Trump a fascist. Chapter Menu x 39 'Nomadland' by Jessica Bruder 38 'Interior Chinatown' by Charles Yu 37 'Trick Mirror' by Jia Tolentino 36 'Severance' by Ling Ma 35 'The Poet X' by Elizabeth Acevedo 34 'Helping Children Succeed' by Paul Tough 33 'Beaten Down, Worked Up' by Steven Greenhouse 32 'Beijing Payback' by Daniel Nieh 31 'Citizen: An American Lyric' by Claudia Rankine 30 'American Spy' by Lauren Wilkinson 29 'The Street' by Ann Petry 28 'Disappearing Earth' by Julia Phillips 27 'Inheritance' by Dani Shapiro 26 'American Prison' by Shane Bauer 25 'Heart Berries' by Terese Marie Mailhot 24 'Circe' by Madeline Miller 23 'The Overstory' by Richard Powers 22 'We the Corporations' by Adam Winkler 21 'Conversations with Friends' by Sally Rooney 20 'The Woman Warrior' by Maxine Hong Kingston 19 'The House of Broken Angels' by Luis Alberto Urrea 18 'The Fifth Season' by N.K.
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