why is everyone avoiding the term "quasi-fascist"? i am also having problems with the term "right-wing populism" being thrown about so candidly. if one examines any account of "right-wing populism" it's all generated through smoke and mirrors, rhetorical opportunism...if you read much of the National Socialist propaganda prior the take over their rhetoric is directly co-opted from socialist critiques except "jews" is substituted for "bourgeoise", equating the evils of the bourgeoise with jews etc. technically i suppose it qualifies as "claiming to represent the common people" but that could mean anything, as everyone claims that...except mussolini and the framers* of the U.S. Constitution. if this is all well understood and an asterik is unneccesary then i apologize for bringing it up.
*except for Benjamin Franlin who objected but signed it anyway and Luther Martin who refused to sign it.
~M.E.