His actions and rhetoric have divided historians over whether he is a fascist
Huntington made much in this book, written in the shadow of the 9/11 attacks, of the legacy of the American founding fathers, and the “American Creed” initially formulated by Thomas Jefferson, the product of a distinct Anglo-Protestant culture.
Many liberal American scholars excoriated Huntington’s assertions, suggesting he was stoking fear, identifying ominous threats and pushing nativist sentiments against immigrants; Mexican-Americans could only share the American dream, Huntington insisted, if they “dream in English”.
But various books, including last year’s collection, Fascism in America, edited by US historians Gavriel Rosenfeld and Janet Ward, have also showcased the historians who argue Trumpism lacks many of fascism’s defining features, such as a “uniform galvanising ideology”, and, unlike the fascism of the 1930s, has appealed more to the elderly than the young, and thatWriting in 2021, leading historian of fascism, Richard J Evans, rejected the claim that Trump was a fascist; he acknowledged the...
Nor, suggested Evans, could Trump create the superimposing fascist state apparatus: “Congress has prevailed over Trump’s attempts to sideline or undermine it, and judges, including his own supreme court appointees, have adhered to and interpreted the law in ways that have sometimes thwarted Trump’s ambitions, notably rejecting his legal challenges to the presidential election… the past four years of mayhem have demonstrated the resilience of American institutions, the law and the constitution.
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