Fascism Scholar Says U.S. Is 'Losing Its Democratic Status'
Yale professor Jason Stanley wrote the book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. He talked with NPR about defining fascism and how conspiracy theories play a part.
Since it was first popularized by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in the 1920s, fascism, and accusations of it, have been a common theme in American political discourse.
Voices on the left warned of fascism in the form of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush; conservatives have accused liberals of actually being the ones to embrace the far-right ideology.
Historians have between Donald Trump in the form of President Trump. And the — anti-fascist — protesters at some demonstrations has upped attention to the word.
