#456 — American Fascism

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You've you have recently written yet another um important article for the Atlantic where you um can often be found The title of this one is Yes, it's fascism. So that got my attention. I'm sure it got other people's attention. Like you, I've I've resisted using this term because there, you know, there were obvious uh historical associations that didn't quite and don't quite map on to our current circumstance under Trump 2.0.

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