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Robert O. Paxton's definition of fascism at the beginning of this article could just as well define the current modus operandi of the government-media-billionaire regime.

As Hitler is reported to have said in his last days by his secretary (I paraphrase), 'Nazism will die with me, but shall return in a hundred years or so...'

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Contrary to the prevailing view today, both Mussolini and Hitler were leftists who greatly admired Karl Marx. National Socialism was a xenophobic strain of Marxism which replaced the struggle of proletariat with the struggle of the Volk for the Fatherland. When the atrocities they committed against the Jews were revealed after WW II, the Left was quick to disown them and associate them with the Right. For more details, see

https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/history-of-left-wing-fascism

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