Is Trump a fascist? Are you raising a fascist regime in the United States? Is it similar to the fascism of the twentieth century? How should we refer to him: fascist, neo-fascist, late-fascist, technofascist, ur-fascist …? Or do we better call it extreme Right, Alt-Right, radical right, populism …? Is the story repeated (bloody like the black pudding, which Ángel González said of the history of Spain)? Is it a historiographic or rather political debate? Is it a semantic, philosophical, journalistic …?
Three months after Trump’s second presidency, articles, debates and books that argue fascism are accumulated, fascism no. His speeches, his policies, his vision of the world and history, the gestures of his closest collaborators (Musk’s raised arm) … after every step he takes (always in the same direction), we reopen the discussion. Already in his first mandate there was a lot in his country of the new F-Word, whether to use it or not. And the same in the rest of the world, about Le Pen, Meloni, Milei, Putin or the Chinese regime, there are always those who call them fascists, and who immediately jumps to question it: “No, man, they are authoritarian, but fascism is something else.” Also among us: years discussing whether Vox is a new fascism, is the usual fascism (our Francoism), or other terms must be used.
