Your July Longette prompt: Fascism

Are you ready? It’s time to tackle one of the heaviest issues of our time. Fascism.

What is fascism? According to Wikipedia, it’s commonly defined by what it is not:

fascists—especially when they are in power—have historically attacked communism, socialism, and parliamentary liberalism, attracting support primarily from the far-right.

Mark Ciacco writes on Substack:

fascism, in its most fundamental sense, describes what happens when all the diverse sources of power in a society become bundled together into a single, unified force

You might choose to take a historical view or—should you dare—tackle something troubling from recent events. Here’s a word cloud that might give you some ideas:

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