The End of Fascism

It's time—finally—for a moratorium on the use of the word in American politics.

The fascism debate is not a semantic debate. It’s not (just) about words. As a debate, it manages to touch on a series of fundamental questions about what  drives political behavior. Why do we believe what we believe? Why do we insist on focusing on the things that we focus on? There are two primary reasons to care about something politically. The first…