On why Trump Bails Out Argentina's Libertarian Paradise: @majorityreport.bsky.social @samseder.bsky.social & @emmavigeland.bsky.social Welcome Dr. Finchelstein, professor of history at the New School— & world-renowned expert on fascism, populism & dictatorship— to discuss it t.co/9snfJZbuYJ

Tell me with a straight face he's wrong here

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

On why Trump Bails Out Argentina's Libertarian Paradise: @majorityreport.bsky.social @samseder.bsky.social & @emmavigeland.bsky.social Welcome Dr. Finchelstein, professor of history at the New School— & world-renowned expert on fascism, populism & dictatorship— to discuss it t.co/9snfJZbuYJ

The Governor Newsom Press Account is beyond good.

Proud to say i was one of them

They don't look like they signed up for this.

The idea of the internal enemy was intrinsically connected to a notion about the inferiority, impurity, and treasonous nature of those who were considered different from the majority. Fascists disputed the idea that citizenship defined the community. Wannabe Fascists, page 109

🗣️ Escoltant al Frederico Finchelstein que ens parla de l’ascens de les ultradretes globals en el marc del XI Col•loqui Walter Benjamin a Portbou, un luxe!

New Book on fascism & populism! "This volume brings together leading international experts. The starting point is Argentine historian Federico Finchelstein’s assertion that the dynamics of transnational fascism and populist movements become clearer when viewed from the margins."

Excellent

A new title of the Cambridge University Press series, "The History and Politics of Fascism" Series Editors Federico Finchelstein and Antonio Costa Pinto

We need to see the censorship of @jimmykimmel.com in context. Fascists proposed a totalitarian state in which plurality & civil society would be silenced & there would be few distinctions between the public & the private, or between the wishes of the leader, the state & its citizens.

Fascism is always on the extreme right. Example: Mussolini on Communists.

NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“

Aspirantes a Fascistas - Federico Finchelstein

Trump does not understand irony in the same way that his sense of sarcasm only means the demonization of others. This performance is just one more proof of his step by step downgrading of democratic institutions, including the presidency and the free press

Facts. Fascists, and wannabe fascists, denounce persecution while unleashing persecution. it. They imagine that all actions in defense of the law and democracy are part of a conspiracy against them. In short, they ascribe lies to their enemies while becoming masters of lies.

Facts. Fascists, and wannabe fascists, denounce persecution while unleashing persecution. it. They imagine that all actions in defense of the law and democracy are part of a conspiracy against them. In short, they ascribe lies to their enemies while becoming masters of lies.

This is typical of populist & fascist leaders. High levels of corruption enabled by normalization from the many & cult of the few...

New York, which already spends a quarter-billion dollars per year to underwrite horse racing, is looking to give the sport millions more in tax breaks. www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing...

I don’t feel surprised at all about this clear authoritarian direction of this new, even more radical and vulgar form of Trumpism, my interview with Salon w/ chaunceydevega www.salon.com/2025/05/05/r...

I don’t feel surprised at all about this clear authoritarian direction of this new, even more radical and vulgar form of Trumpism, my interview with Salon w/ chaunceydevega www.salon.com/2025/05/05/r...

Federico Finchelstein: "Trump aspire au fascisme, consciemment ou non" t.co/0N3PuchSAh

Federico Finchelstein: "Trump aspire au fascisme, consciemment ou non" t.co/0N3PuchSAh

Just participated of a great panel on key questions re the present danger! with @kimlanelaw.bsky.social @mashagessen.bsky.social W. Sadurski A. Koli, M Mazower, N Elcott , K. Pistor, R. Morris Columbia Teach-In: Authoritarian Turns | Columbia University columbia.edu/content/even...

Fascists and Populists between Past and Present...my talk today at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras...

Fascists and Populists between Past and Present...my talk today at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras...

Fascist leaders were presented as being from, by, and for the people, but they never truly did what a majority of the people wanted. On the contrary, they asserted that they were permanently ruling for transcendental reasons and causes.

Fascist leaders were presented as being from, by, and for the people, but they never truly did what a majority of the people wanted. On the contrary, they asserted that they were permanently ruling for transcendental reasons and causes.

A few GOP Senators and Reps could join Dems right now to end the fake emergency justifying Trump's tariffs. He'd veto. Let him. Ds can pressure Rs to override. They should hound Rs on this. On the pod, @normornstein.bsky.social brilliantly lays out this path forward: newrepublic.com/article/1936...

Fascism is formulated on the basis of a modern idea of popular power, but one in which political representation is eliminated and power is fully delegated to the dictator, who acts in the name of the people.

Destroying democracy will in turn destroy civil society, political tolerance, and pluralism, followed by the gradual or rapid dismantling of the law, the separation of powers, electoral procedures, and the independent press

Mussolini fascinated media & even those journalists who were supposed to provide critical information about his dictatorship rather than propping up its international & national legitimacy. Readers of the New York Times were informed that the Italian people needed dictatorship.

Many mini-Hitlers or little Mussolinis tried to become the inheritors of something that in principle was not transferable. In a sense, fascist dictators were sterile: they could not procreate successors. The power of this kind of ruler could not be contained, much less passed on.

One problem that arises from extremely personalized fascist dictatorship is the problem of succession. In justifying the legitimacy of the dictator as political religion, fascists can never easily transfer the charismatic natuof their unique transcendental leadership.

Many fascists rejected the word dictatorship because it traditionally had negative associations w/ tyranny & despotism, words they associated with egalitarianism, liberalism, Judaism & communism. However, they all agreed fascism was a form of one-person absolute & permanent rule

Fanaticism and feelings of deep political love can replace critical thinking. Some supporters seem unconvinced that their leaders have done any of the things they are accused of; when presented with irrefutable evidence, they say whatever he did wasn’t wrong. Followers are not meant to ask questions

For followers, the attachment to the leader seems so secure that it transcends transgressions or failed promises and justifies the leader’s most offensive and illegal acts. Wannabe Fascists, p. 77

✍ @finchelsteinf.bsky.social y @emmaguerisoli.bsky.social latinoamerica21.com/es/milei-y-s...

Milei and his myth of Argentine history, my text with @emmaguerisoli.bsky.social @latinoamerica21.bsky.social latinoamerica21.com/en/milei-and...

I would like some assurance that the “VP” Hegseth is referring to is not Vladimir Putin.

Milei and his myth of Argentine history, my text with @emmaguerisoli.bsky.social @latinoamerica21.bsky.social latinoamerica21.com/en/milei-and...

Wait...what? This is news to me and maybe most Latin Americans... According to Perry Anderson: "Contemporary populism first emerged in Europe, which still exhibits the widest and most diversified array of movements. " www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

📢 #Milei y su “historia completa” de los 70s: con Agustín Laje como ideólogo, el gobierno omite el #terrorismo de Estado y justifica la #dictadura. 🤔 ¿Es memoria histórica o #negacionismo? ✍ @finchelsteinf.bsky.social y @emmaguerisoli.bsky.social ➡️ latinoamerica21.com/es/milei-y-s...

The Manufacturing of Violence. We can see this in practice through the cult of the leader & his violent rhetoric & actions that sometimes resemble acts of war. Although it was presented as spontaneous, this violence was, in fact, planned.

I wrote a new preface to the Spanish edition of my book Wannabe Fascists/Aspirantes a fascistas...to be published in a few months... @penguinlibros.bsky.social

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

Wait...what? This is news to me and maybe most Latin Americans... According to Perry Anderson: "Contemporary populism first emerged in Europe, which still exhibits the widest and most diversified array of movements. " www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Los historiadores hablamos de terrorismo de Estado, mientras que Milei y sus acolitos se disfrazan de historiadores y hablan de la verdad "completa". La violencia estatal No estaba justificada y NO salvo al país de una dictadura comunista.