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Fascism?
Here are presented a classical example of fascism (Nazi Germany) and a modern example of which there is still some dispute (Trumpism[1]):
| Aspect of fascism | Generic | Nazi Germany | Trumpism | Hinduta |
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| Decline | Good old days | World War I, Great Depression, mythologizing the Roman Empire[2] | Idealizing 1950s America[3] | How everything was invented by ancient Indians, before the British and Mughals looted India |
| Humiliation | Treaty of Versailles | Lost Cause of the South | British India | |
| Victimhood | Victim mentality |
Stab-in-the-back legend | Trump's frequent claims of being treated unfairly despite living a life of privilege ("The Conservative Cult of Victimhood")[4] | Modi's paranoia about Muslims and his life being under threat |
| Unity | Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Axis powers |
QAnon, Unite the Right, alt-right, Falun Gong via Epoch Times, Fundamentalist Christianity, Federalist Society | "Hindus are divided, Muslims are weak; RSS unites Hindus" | |
| Energy | Nuremberg rallies |
MAGA rallies | Rallies even during COVID | |
| Purity | anti-immigration, antisemitism, ethnic cleansing, nationalism, racism | Eugenics, Kinder, Küche, Kirche | transphobia and public restrooms, American exceptionalism, white nationalism | Casteism, islamophobia |
| Mass-based party of committed nationalist militants | Sturmabteilung |
militia movement, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Three Percenters | RSS, VHP | |
| Uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites | German industrialists and elites | GOP | Ambani Adani (?) | |
| Abandons democratic liberties | Opposition to the rule of law and human rights | Racial policy of Nazi Germany |
bogus voter fraud claims in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, restricting voting rights, refusal to accept election results | Hiding data, controlling media |
| Pursues with redemptive violence without ethical or legal constraints goals of internal cleansing | coup d'état, genocide | Beer Hall Putsch, Night of the Long Knives, Kristallnacht, Holocaust |
MAGA Bomber, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot | 2002 Gujrat riots, Delhi riots |
| External expansion | Irredentism | Lebensraum | offer to purchase Greenland from Denmark against the wishes of the Inuit[5] | Akhand Bharat |
- ↑ See the Wikipedia article on Trumpism.
- ↑ Mussolini’s ‘Third Rome’, Hitler’s Third Reich and the Allure of Antiquity: Classicizing Chronopolitics as a Remedy for Unstable National Identity? by Helen Roche (2019) Fascism 8:27-152. doi:10.1163/22116257-00802004.
- ↑ A majority of Donald Trump supporters think everything has been terrible since the 1950s: A research poll shows just how many Americans yearn for a return to the idealized, white-bread decade by Matthew Rozsa (October 25, 2016 2:43PM) Salon.
- ↑ The Conservative Cult of Victimhood: Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters. by David Frum (January 11, 2021) The Atlantic.
- ↑ Greenlanders on Trump: ‘We are neither for sale nor can be bought’ by Rachel Obordo (21 Aug 2019 09.25 EDT) The Guardian.