We've been using the wrong word to describe the president and his approach to ruling
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We've been using the wrong word to describe the president and his approach to ruling
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January 15, 2026 6:30AM (EST)
Techno-libertarian, isolationist fascist, plutocratic populist? The politics of the 47th US president are impossible to pin down.…
The president's bad behavior Isn't incidental — it's the bedrock of his fascist project
Trump and his allies have so undermined the US government that we need a new vocabulary to describe them
But don’t call that fascism. That would be bad.
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