September 16, 2025
What is a fascist?
By Michael Lynch
What is a fascist? Don’t ask any of the college students who throw this word around. They won’t remember Benito Mussolini, who started a political movement in Italy, and who gave us a quotation that will serve to characterize his intent: “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” All who try to describe fascism also include nationalism -- perhaps ultra-nationalism. To combine these two elements to describe any political movement in the United States in 2025 is idiotic.
Yes, you can say that “America First” sounds like nationalism; but ultra-nationalism surely would begin with the conquest of Canada, and that isn’t on anyone’s agenda, (except for Islamists). And you can say that there is a political party in America that desires state control of almost everything. But that political party is completely hostile to the idea of “America First.” In fact, it’s more dedicated followers despise America’s history and most of its people. So “fascist” in historical reality has no relation to its usage in America today.
But it has another meaning, deliberately created by Stalin. In that meaning “fascist” is anyone who opposes communism. Stalin, however, would never have opposed Mussolini’s idea about the state. In fact, that was Stalin’s desire also, and like Louis XIV, he was the state. (Even more than Louis ever dreamed.) But today in America, “fascist” is frequently used to denigrate those who oppose the expansion of state power.
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