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Fascism and daddy issues

Why the Frankfurt School was so focused on the fascist's relationship with his father.

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Carl Beijer
Sep 20, 2024
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I’ve always been extremely suspicious of the argument that Donald Trump is a fascist. First because he spent most of his first term governing as a perfectly ordinary right-wing capitalist, and it was only during the January 6 attempted coup that the charge of fascist really became plausible. And second, of course, because Democrats have always called si…

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