How to Use fascism in a Sentence
fascism
noun-
One of the points of the film is to say: This is the cause of fascism.
— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 28 May 2023 -
Gilead is on the rise, just like in this world where fascism is on the rise.
— Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Nov. 2022 -
That all that’s left is going to be the road to fascism.
— Laura Johnston, cleveland, 10 June 2022 -
The story deals with arson as a metaphor for the rise of fascism.
— Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2022 -
The monarchy faced threats from communism on the left and fascism on the right.
— Judy Berman, Time, 30 July 2021 -
In the largest stadium in the city that gave rise to the Nazis, fascism no longer is a problem.
— Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2021 -
For the past four years, potted histories have warned about the rise of fascism in the U.S.
— David Satter, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2020 -
Students learn about the rise of fascism and Nazism in Europe.
— Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2023 -
But in at least a few key areas, the fascism label doesn't fit.
— Leslie Gornstein, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2020 -
The origins of the Alt-right Hate, white supremacy and fascism are nothing new.
— Michael Harriot, The Root, 7 Sep. 2017 -
The far-right is rising on the back of the same sort of fears that powered the rise of fascism before World War II.
— Max Hastings, Twin Cities, 12 June 2024 -
But by the mid-1930s the luster began to come off both Nazism and Italian fascism.
— Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023 -
This is the way fascism takes hold, regardless of how the sides are defined.
— Ken Kalfus, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2017 -
This is the way the normalization of fascism and mass murder works, the film tells us.
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2023 -
If fascism comes to America, will it come wrapped in a lab coat?
— Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 7 Aug. 2021 -
But in the new America, descended from the ’50s, fascism would now be sold with a beat and a smile.
— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024 -
As the show continues and the dates change to the early 1940s, the growing fear of fascism and World War II drifts into the frame.
— Alicia Eler, Star Tribune, 22 Apr. 2021 -
That is the path to illiberalism; there lies the road to fascism.
— Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2023 -
Where does a resurgence in fascism among young people in the United States come from?
— John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2017 -
In these camps, as in the Nazi camps of Eastern Europe, the complex racist logic of Nazism and fascism took vivid form.
— Aomar Boum, The Conversation, 15 Nov. 2022 -
But the real monsters in this film are human, as fascism and war hover in the background of the tale.
— Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024 -
These words were published more than 80 years ago, during the rise of fascism in a Europe at the cusp of the Second World War.
— Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021 -
Nearly 100 years later, the legacy of fascism is alive in Italy.
— Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2024 -
The public expression of Trump’s fascism is butched up in all the old Sontag-ian ways.
— David Roth, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2020 -
The story will be set during the rise of fascism in Mussolini’s Italy.
— Susan Haas, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2020 -
While the groups are not officially linked, many of them share the same goals – to stop modern day fascism.
— Monika Rębała, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2020 -
Studio was the defining moment for the social fascism of that era.
— Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2018 -
Both men spoke of the rise of nationalism and fascism across Europe.
— Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 21 May 2018 -
That’s pretty damn close to fascism, if not the definition of fascism.
— Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2024 -
Shame on them all for betraying the memory and sacrifice of all Americans who gave their lives to defend our freedoms against fascism.
— Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2024
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