What it means to call someone a fascist

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

86% : Trump described Jan. 6 as a "day of love.
63% : He said Trump, while in office, suggested that Hitler "did some good things.
47% : Indeed, critics sometimes describe modern U.S. extremist groups -- including movements that have cheered Trump, like the Proud Boys -- as fascists or neo-fascists.
43% : During an interview with her in Detroit on Oct. 15, radio host Charlamagne Tha God said Trump was increasingly embracing fascism and asked, "Why can't we just say it?"
40% : And, when now-President Joe Biden challenged him during a 2020 debate to denounce the Proud Boys, Trump replied: "Proud Boys, stand back and stand by.
40% : He said there are similarities, including "mass movement, a cult of the strongman."Kertzer said fascism involved "a one-party state, a banishing of all opposition newspapers and jailing people who disagreed," and that, while Trump has talked about jailing opponents, he's not moved toward embracing other key facets of the movement.
24% : Trump has threatened to take action against television networks and news organizations for coverage he deems unfavorable.
19% : The Democratic vice president has long criticized Trump as being mentally unstable and not a true believer in, or defender of, the nation's founding democratic principles.
16% : She notes that Trump suggested he'd deploy the military to target political opponents, including people he has decried as the "enemy from within.
7% : Why is Harris calling Trump a fascist?
7% : "A mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, seeking to overturn Trump's loss to Biden after Trump gave a speech propagating falsehoods about the election and exhorting the crowd to "fight like hell.
4% : "One expert's views on TrumpDavid Kertzer, a Brown University professor and Italian historian, said he was "a little horrified" to hear Harris call Trump a fascist given the term's "historical resonance."

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