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On October 23rd, 2024, the New York Times ran a feature on historian Robert Paxton,

who is considered one of the world's leading experts on fascism.

They trace the Trump timeline. In early 2017, Paxton urged restraint from calling the president

fascist in an essay that he wrote for Harper's Magazine. Paxton noted that while Trump's first

term rhymed with fascist politics, he said not to

treat everyone you don't like as a fascist. He then bowed out of debating the topic any further

until January 6th happened, and then Paxton changed his mind. On January 11th, 2021, he wrote in Newsweek that the insurrection

attempt, quote, removes my objection to the fascist label. A few weeks before the last election,

he told the New York Times, it's bubbling up from below in very worrisome ways. And that's

very much like the original fascisms. It's the

real thing. It really is. Julian, both you and Matthew recently read Paxton's 2004 book, The Anatomy of

Fascism, and Matthew covered it in his roundup of anti-fascist text a few weeks ago.

I didn't want to feel left out, so I read it and I completed it last week.

And I must admit, there were points where I thought I was reading a text

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