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by Guthur 1772 days ago
And some also apply to the current incumbent so I'm not really sure what we should draw from that.
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You should recognize them as fascist adjacent, as they rightly are.

Most of the things on the list are actively bad in any political system. Half of them are inexcusable. A few are essentially descriptions of populism being acted upon, and a few are typical reactionary features.

For example, current Polish governing party fits: 1, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14.

The US is a democracy but it’s always been flirty with fascist elements. So it’s no surprise you can look at the American government, under any president, and see some fascistic elements at work.
We also support socialistic elements too.

In the Marxist sense, we are a synthesis . Our competition is most likely the Chinese Communists which have broadly adopted capitalism, but retain the oligarchic power structures at the top, and state control of enterprises. They represent a different synthesis