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Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 26, 2024

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I have a lot of (new, not classical) liberal friends and tend to trawl liberal and progressive-adjacent spaces on the internet. I’ve seen and heard an uptick in references to electing Trump leading to “white Christian fascism” or a “Christian fascist dictatorship”. It is those exact phrases.

I’ve tried to google the phrases and where this line of thought originated but the internet is awash in fascism-related commentary on Trump in general, none of it which specifically utilizes the exact phrase “white Christian fascism” or “Christian fascist dictatorship”. Would any of you have an idea of where this began?

In case you just hand wave to general news coverage, I should note that I do not read or watch mainstream news. I work in a policy-related position and tend to read (almost never watch) primarily trade-related publications with WSJ, FT, The Motte, and StupidPol forming the bulk of my general news sources.

I don’t know if I’ve come across that specific phrasing before, but the concept dates back to the 2016 campaign. You can, for example, find any number of ridiculous articles from 2016–2017 that compared Trump’s policy goals to The Handmaid’s Tale, several of which are linked to in the Wikipedia article on the show.

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