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13:03:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 19:19:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 19:47:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 10:03:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 21:51:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-10 22:36:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-10 22:36:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n<p>A few weeks ago I was making my way into work, catching up with the overnight news of Donald Trump\u2019s second inauguration. <a title=\"Time: Breaking Down All of Trump\u2019s Day 1 Presidential Actions\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7208691\/trump-day-one-presidential-actions-executive-orders-memorandum-proclamation-explainer\/\">Things that Trump did on inauguration day<\/a> had a whiff of fascism. But seeing <a title=\"Wikipedia: Elon Musk salute controversy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elon_Musk_salute_controversy\">Elon Musk make multiple Nazi salutes on stage<\/a> left me aghast. It fascinated me to see people and institutions bend over backwards to accommodate alternative interpretations of what Musk did, including the Anti-Defamation League which said &#8220;<a title=\"ADL post on X\/Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ADL\/status\/1881474892022919403?mx=2\">It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute<\/a>&#8220;, and Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, who said that Musk &#8220;<a title=\"Benjamin Netanyahu's post on X\/Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/netanyahu\/status\/1882392668497756279\">is being falsely smeared<\/a>&#8220;. It\u2019s as if calling it what it clearly was \u2014 a fascist salute \u2014 would cross a line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had an interesting conversation with a friend who didn\u2019t see the Musk gesture in the same way. However, in our discussion he suggested that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/uk-riots-court-case-live-33429024\" title=\"Mirror: Armchair thug jailed for 20 months for hateful Facebook posts about migrant hotel\">people going to jail in the UK for what they said on social media<\/a> <em>was<\/em> fascist. I wasn\u2019t so sure. Believing in \u2018free speech\u2019 as a principle doesn\u2019t necessarily mean you get to say anything you like to anyone whenever you feel like it. There have to be rules. I\u2019m definitely not a free-speech absolutist. As I wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2025\/01\/16\/weeknotes-307-all-the-things\/\" title=\"Andrew Doran: Weeknotes #307 \u2014 All the things\">my recent weeknotes<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>At the forefront of my mind this week was the concept of free speech, given the\u00a0<a title=\"The Guardian: Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/07\/meta-facebook-instagram-threads-mark-zuckerberg-remove-fact-checkers-recommend-political-content\">widely-reported changes at Meta<\/a>. A conversation with a friend and\u00a0<a title=\"Stratechery: Meta Changes Moderation Policies, Zuckerberg\u2019s Journey \u2014 and Mine, The Audacity of Copying Well\" href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2025\/meta-changes-moderation-policies-zuckerbergs-journey-and-mine-the-audacity-of-copying-well\/\">a Stratechery post by Ben Thompson<\/a>\u00a0challenged my thinking, which led me to try to find resources that would help me to refine my understanding. I\u2019ve bought\u00a0<em><a title=\"Springer Nature: Regulating Free Speech in a Digital Age by David Bromell\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-030-95550-2\">Regulating Free Speech in a Digital Age<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by David Bromell\u00a0<a title=\"Heather Burns: 2024\u2019s best reads and listens\" href=\"https:\/\/heatherburns.tech\/2024\/12\/26\/2024s-best-reads-and-listens\/\">as recommended by Heather Burns<\/a>, as well as\u00a0<em><a title=\"Hachette Book Group: Fearless Speech by Mary Anne Franks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/titles\/mary-anne-franks\/fearless-speech\/9781645030539\/\">Fearless Speech<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Mary Anne Franks. I lean towards free speech, but having this week learned about the\u00a0<a title=\"Wikipedia: Paradox of tolerance\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paradox_of_tolerance\">paradox of tolerance<\/a>, I know that I\u2019m not a \u2018free speech absolutist\u2019. But I don\u2019t know where or how the line should be drawn.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>On one level, putting people in prison for writing a post on Twitter or Facebook seems extreme. But it doesn\u2019t seem right that people can publish posts encouraging others to burn down hotels and religious buildings without consequence. Is jailing people for their posts fascist? I didn\u2019t think so. But I wasn\u2019t completely sure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By chance, I saw that Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey had posted an \u2018emergency\u2019 episode of their <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podmasters.co.uk\/origin-story\" title=\"Podmasters: Origin Story\">Origin Story<\/a><\/em> podcast, called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/1624704966\/episode\/c4eb6d3fcc4139e3621ddff6dc281a2e\" title=\"Origin Story podcast: Trump\u2019s inauguration: Can we call it fascism yet?\">Trump\u2019s inauguration: Can we call it fascism yet?<\/a><\/em> The fact that the title was pitched as a question, while the image for the episode is a picture of Elon Musk doing his Nazi salute, shows that this wasn\u2019t something straightforward to answer. On the podcast, Ian Dunt decided that yes, we can call this fascism, and explained why:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Dorian Lynskey:<\/strong> &#8230;it has to be said that Elon Musk throwing <em>what appears to be<\/em> a fascist salute more than once doesn\u2019t require the historian Richard J. Evans to decode that one. Ian, obviously one does not like to be hysterical about this. We were talking about how not to cry fascism and everything. What did you make of the inauguration?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ian Dunt:<\/strong> Oh, I would really like to cry fascism now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DL:<\/strong> OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ID:<\/strong> I mean, there&#8217;s a certain&#8230; I know that you&#8217;ve discovered that apparently the frog&#8217;s in water and it&#8217;s bollocks, and apparently the frog does jump out of the water, but you do sort of feel because it&#8217;s like an everyday degree by degree by degree increase, you feel trapped by it. There is a point when you have to take a step back or deal with&#8230; I mean, I could do all of this list with Trump, obviously, but you have to do it with Musk. It&#8217;s like just over the last couple of months, this is a guy that is explicitly telling people, go out and vote and support Tommy Robinson, Alternative for Deutschland, extremist street thugs. These are the people who support him. He&#8217;s interacting with far right accounts. He&#8217;s using all of the modern day online far right imagery, <a title=\"Wikipedia: Pepe the Frog\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pepe_the_Frog\">Pepe the Frog<\/a> and all of his nonsense monikers that he&#8217;s adopted. The accounts that he interacts with, the conspiracy theories that he spreads, they&#8217;re all on the far right. So then when he gets up and repeatedly does something that looks like a Nazi salute, if that was someone else, if it was George Bush who did it, you&#8217;d think like, \u201che got that all funny and it came out weird and don&#8217;t be weird about it.\u201d But it takes <em>so much<\/em> generosity that you have really reached the point of being fundamentally <em>irrational<\/em> to not interpret it in this way, given the series of actions that led up to it. Years ago, when we did our episode on fascism, we were like, you need the alarm to be pulled when things get really sketchy. Well, to me, honestly, yesterday, that&#8217;s what really sketchy looks like.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The episode also had a reading from their most recent <em>Origin Story<\/em> book, called <em>Fascism<\/em>, which sounded exactly like what I was looking for. So I picked up a copy and dived in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book explores fascism primarily through the history of the two classic examples where it was indisputably how the countries were run \u2014 Italy under Mussolini (whose political party was literally called the Partito Nazionale Fascista, the National Fascist Party) and Germany under Hitler. There is general consensus that these were both fascist dictatorships, but they were very different to each other. Part of the problem with calling anything \u2018fascist\u2019 today is that you are immediately drawing a comparison to these two regimes, both of which precipitated extreme suffering through their actions in World War II:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>If you invoke 1930s Germany to criticise a draconian right-wing policy, you will be widely understood. But if, for the sake of accuracy, you reference modern Hungary, 1970s Chile, 1940s Spain, or even 1920s Italy, most people will not have any idea what you are talking about. This narrow band of shared knowledge erases most of the history of authoritarianism and creates a false binary: either a country is a healthy, tolerant democracy or it is on the road to Nazism. The vast middle ground must be understood, now more than ever, because that is where the populists operate. Even if we are in the business of sounding the red alert about them, we must have a sense of the precise threat they pose if we are to effectively challenge them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Using the word \u2018fascist\u2019 for something \u2018less\u2019 than Nazi Germany seems to either be too over-the-top, or has the effect of diluting the meaning and impact of the word. (This is echoed by Dorian Lynskey\u2019s tentative approach in the podcast episode to the question of whether to \u201ccry fascism\u201d or not about Trump and Musk.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>And now, in the early twenty-first century, we seem surrounded by figures who can\u2019t reliably be called fascists but who trade in similar feelings and inspire similar anxieties in their opponents. That makes us want to call them fascists \u2013 to shake people by the collar and tell them that we\u2019ve played this game before and it did not end well. But it deprives us of the confidence to do so, because we\u2019re never quite sure if we\u2019re using the word correctly, or if deploying it will make us look like hysterics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>But trying to pin down exactly what we mean by fascism is inherently difficult. It isn\u2019t the same as other ideologies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>There is no flawless, objective test for fascism. This is not due to any weakness in scholarly analysis, but to the weakness of fascism itself. We can define socialism very easily, as the collective ownership of the means of production. We can define liberalism as the belief in the freedom of the individual. That is because these are both meaningful political traditions with a huge body of intellectual contributions. We struggle to define fascism because it is not a meaningful political tradition and it has few, if any, intellectual contributions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors suggest that something does not need to be \u2018fully fascist\u2019 for the word, or a derivative of it, to be useful in pointing out something that is on the road to fascism:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>One solution is semantic: terms that allude to someone or something having fascist elements without necessarily satisfying the full definition. President Biden referred to Trump\u2019s philosophy as \u2018semi-fascism\u2019, a term also used by the historian Stanley Payne. There are many other variants: proto-fascism, quasi-fascism or borderline fascism. And there is the term \u2018fascistic\u2019, to describe a particular element of a populist movement. These phrases can seem slightly cowardly and evasive, but they\u2019re actually very helpful. They provide options. They let you point to worrying elements of a movement or party without having to go all the way. They add nuance while retaining the capacity for historical comparison and political warning.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The rise of populism across the world<em>is<\/em> something to be concerned with in the same way that we should have been concerned about the rise of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Fascism and populism share a conceptual root. They both feature an all-encompassing insistence on the \u2018will of the people\u2019 as the only source of political legitimacy, unlike liberalism, which places a strong emphasis on individual rights, diversity and the separation of powers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, there is no easy checklist that you can use to define whether something is fascist, although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/11\/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html\" title=\"Open Culture: Umberto Eco\u2019s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism\">Umberto Eco tried with his list of the 14 common features of fascism<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>This, then, is the moral lesson of the story of fascism. It is not necessarily about precise definitions, or watertight checklists, or strictly policed usage. 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