The global rise of the authoritarian right has confounded classification and led to contentious debates on the left. Do politicians like Modi, Bolsonaro, Orban, and Trump represent an extreme form of right-wing populism? Or are they fascists, as some claim? Historian and scholar of populism and fascism Federico Finchelstein argues that we’re seeing something new — a phenomenon that blurs the lines between the two.
Federico Finchelstein, <a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wannabe-fascists/hardcover" target="_blank">The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy</a> UC Press, 2024
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