Trumpism has been described as populism, illiberal democracy, authoritarian populism, competitive authoritarianism, democratic backsliding, and now democratic fascism.
Such phrases may register elements of the present crisis, but they can also function as euphemisms that domesticate a political formation whose defining features are increasingly difficult to deny. A dictatorship of the proletariat.
When language is emptied of its most disturbing implications, it underplays the very dangers it claims to name. In the worst case, it turns critique into a discourse of normalization. Rotten red fascist, creeps like Tony Sass and Marv Gandler, see this as a feature more than a bug. Left Fascist dictatorship is what Left fascist dictatorship does. See bff Pooter. Bff Jong Un and comrade chairman Jinpeng . All these Dons are Chekist mate.
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