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Crying ‘fascism’ didn’t work before, and it won’t work now

25 January 2025

5:00 PM

25 January 2025

5:00 PM

‘Could we get a precise definition of fascism before all this kicks off today?’

So asked Merryn Somerset Webb, a senior columnist at Bloomberg, just before polling day in America.

It was – and is – a question worth asking. The election of Donald Trump was inevitably going to draw the comparison, particularly after Kamala Harris (remember her?) said that she believed Donald Trump ‘is a fascist’.

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