Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Definition of the Day
What fascism was historically was a kind of consensual dictatorship—a dictatorship with enthusiastic popular support in democracies where people had grown to feel that the democratic way wasn't strong enough to get the country out of a crisis. —Robert Paxton, author of Anatomy of Fascism, in an interview on NPR's "All Things Considered"
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