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Originally Posted by 81MC
Pretty solid reminder every time someone wants to call western democracies Facist or authoritarian. I don’t care how ####ty Trump is, or how many #### Trudeau slogans are out there... we’re not openly trying to murder political dissidents like certain other nations.
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Fascism has many markers, and is an apt description of the backslide going on in the US.
Authoritarianism is a completely separate identifier and shouldn't be conflated (though obviously overlaps can/will occur); this is much more in line with the latter than the former.