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Done With the Fascism Wars

I'm fed up.

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Shadi Hamid
Aug 30, 2022
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Done With the Fascism Wars

Can someone be a semi-liberal? Or a semi-Islamist? Or a semi-populist? There’s a reason you haven’t heard anyone use such terms. They are nonsensical. Which brings me to President Biden’s recent, controversial remarks that the philosophy of Trumpism and MAGA-ism is akin to “semi-fascism.”

Once you introduce the word “fascism” into a conversation, you can…

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