Donald Trump blurred the line between populism and fascism in a dangerous way

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In fact, fascists believe that elections and patriotism are essentially opposed because the true leader does not necessarily get the most votes. As Benito Mussolini wrote in The Doctrine of Fascism in 1932, Fascism is therefore opposed to the form of democracy that equates a country with the majority, lowering it to the level of the majority; but it is the purest form of democracy if the country is considered to be from the point of view of quality rather than quantity, as an idea, the most powerful because the most ethical, most coherent, most true, self-expressing people as the conscience and wishes of the few, if not, in fact, of the other.

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