> Many historians consider the term “fascism” to have become vague and worn out by polemical overuse... There is no definition of facism and as far as I know t

> Many historians consider the term “fascism” to have become vague and worn out by polemical overuse... There is no definition of facism and as far as I know there almost never was. The reason the term is so popular in politics is because it can be used to label anything without being falsifiable. Trump probably is facist, but the tricky thing to define is what properties a politician would need to have to be not-facist because a lot of his opponents also appear to be facists. All the bad things that characterise facism also characterise non-facists systems. Nationalism is not facism, nor are hierarchies. Nor is violence. Nor are cults of personality. Lots of systems have those things individually or in combination (like communism, for that matter). In practice facists are precisely the people who self-identify as facists. People have stopped doing that because facist ideologies lost to liberal ones in literal and metaphoric senses.