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Once you start having all the sorts of different versions of fascism, it's very easy to then call pretty much everyone a fascist that you don't like.

Trump likes to attack the left as multiculturalist, confused, historicist, self-contradictory.

Sorry, but if there ever was a historicist relativist, it's Trump.

I have the opportunity to speak to what people consider to be the most dangerous philosopher in the West or to the West,

and I believe they call you that because you identify as a communist.

I am saying that Stalinism in all its horror is still part of the European Enlightenment.

It's impossible to avoid the subject of fascism in the age of Donald Trump.

Some people wield it simply as an insult to the American president.

Others invest a lot of time and energy in explaining how it's a fair and legitimate label.

Many of his supporters use it as an example of incendiary rhetoric gone too far, all of which

begs the question, is Donald Trump a fascist?

Well, revered philosopher and psychoanalyst, Slavoy Zhijek, author of the new book,

Liberal Fascisms, has some thoughts. And a bit later on the show, we'll both be joined by Warren Smith, the internet's premier, critical thinker, who has some different thoughts. We're joining us to right away is Savoie. Welcome back to Unsighting. Great to see you here in the studio. Great to see you, the first time face to face. I want to start Savoy with a quote from your new book.

Yeah.

Perhaps the best characterization of Trump is that he's liberal, namely a fascist liberal.

He's the ultimate proof that liberalism and fascism work together,

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