Fair enough. My use of the term fascist here was hyperbolic; likely erroneous. Ultranationalism is pretty important to fascism—dare i say fascism can’t exist without it—so I’ll fall on my own sword here.
It’s only open fascism if they’re self-describing that way. There aren’t any openly fascist countries today.
I’d push back slightly here though. It isn’t attractive to self identify as fascist these days, so i think we’d expect essentially no countries (or individuals) doing so. America is crypto-fascist as things stand under Trump.
Sure I agree, but to me the term “open fascist” implies there is no attempt to hide what they are. If you meant it otherwise then I don’t understand what it’s meant to imply.
Fair enough. My use of the term fascist here was hyperbolic; likely erroneous. Ultranationalism is pretty important to fascism—dare i say fascism can’t exist without it—so I’ll fall on my own sword here.
I’d push back slightly here though. It isn’t attractive to self identify as fascist these days, so i think we’d expect essentially no countries (or individuals) doing so. America is crypto-fascist as things stand under Trump.
Sure I agree, but to me the term “open fascist” implies there is no attempt to hide what they are. If you meant it otherwise then I don’t understand what it’s meant to imply.
I would characterize it as “oblivious fascism”. The sort of, “If you think I’m a fascist because i believe x, then so be it” mentality