Finchelstein offers four criteria to evaluate a country's place on the fascism spectrum: political violence, propaganda and disinformation, xenophobia, and dictatorship. It is troubling, to say the least, to see where the United States now finds itself on this spectrum
Meet those on the verge of becoming fascists today, and learn the warning signs to help you stop them on their path from populism to dictatorship.In his book The Aspiring Fascists, historian Federico Finkelstein explains why Trumpism and movements like it represent a new political type, the end result of the combined history of fascism and populism: the aspiring fascists. These leaders are usually elected politicians and, unlike previous populists, embrace totalitarian and racist lies and illegal means to destroy democracy from within.
