The Aesthetics of Fascism

In a recent article in Foreign Policy, Eliah Bures does an admirable job of explaining why, perhaps despite strong intuitions to the contrary, it is ill advised to apply the term “fascist” to Trump and his “base.”1 For one, it has become a sort of rhetorical tic in the last forty years, shared alike by angry critics of not just Trump but also Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. As a term of abuse, it acts as a kind of cathartic discharge that demonizes and alienates, one that discourages real dialogue. But even as applied specifically

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