14 tests for fascism
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2023/05/05/commentary-is-ron-desantis-fascist/A cult of tradition
An irrational rejection of modernism
Action for action’s sake
Rejection of the critical spirit, replaced by the notion that “disagreement is treason”
Fear of diversity
Appeal to frustrated middle and lower-middle classes
Ultranationalism and obsession with a plot
A feeling of humiliation due to the wealth and power of their enemies
A belief that “life is permanent warfare”
A populist form of elitism that includes contempt for the weak
The myth of the hero
The “fetishizing of machismo”
Media populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.
Using “an impoverished vocabulary and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.