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He may be an asshole, but calling everyone you don't like a fascist is just going to make the word useless
He's just a misguided social democrat. Unfortunately social democracy in Scandinavia got caught in the ratchet mechanism and is now straying further from the light every year, wondering why their former voters feel betrayed.
Misguided? Why are liberals always treated with kid gloves? Calling this guy a fascist does not seem out of bounds at all based on his policies.
the word's not useless, it's just that its meaning has evolved to encompass pretty much all authoritarianism, rather than just a specific subset of it.
Yeah, and we have the word authoritarianism for that
He may be a fascist, but calling everyone you don’t like an asshole is just going to make the word useless
Fascist is as fascist does
There you go, I'm Italian so my definition of fascism is Umberto Eco's, seems like this guy falls short a bit, we can use other words.
Unfortunately people here are mostly incapable of having nuance.
Oh, the irony!