For a slightly different perspective from Mussolini: http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.asp http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolin

For a slightly different perspective from Mussolini: http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.asp http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.asp https://archive.org/details/MyAutobiography https://archive.org/details/MyAutobiography Primary sources are important, they give you details and textures that are smoothed over in a retelling or distillation. My personal opinion, since this story has basically become about whether or not Trump represents an American Fascist movement, is that crying fascism all the time is very much a 'boy who cried wolf' scenario. I don't think Trump is a fascist per se. Moreover, considering that fascism was a term adopted by the left to describe the heretical forms of syndicalism, socialism, etc that split from Leninism in the early to mid 20th century and was used for the POUM[1] as readily as Hitler's SS[2] I submit that the term in fact means nothing. Fascism has no central character because it's a bogeyman of self described antifas who want to import European style street brawl politics[3] into the United States. Instead of trying to conceptualize and denounce Trump in terms of the past, I think it would be more effective to point out the concrete dangers he represents to domestic and foreign policy with his actual stated politics, or his hypocrisy, or any of the other many traits you can go after with him.[4] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_catalonia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_catalonia [2]: They are after all the National Socialists. Though by the time Hitler was appointed Chancellor the actual 'socialist' wing of the party had been purged to win over the minds of wealthy donors. [3]: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-neo-nazi-event-stabbings-capitol-20160627-snap-story.html http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-neo-nazi-event-s... [4]: For example, compare this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOJrYxHQO-E&nohtml5=False https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOJrYxHQO-E&nohtml5=False) Ted Cruz ad to John Kaisch's invoking Godwin. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_isVZN65Ss&nohtml5=False https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_isVZN65Ss&nohtml5=False)