Overview
- A Lawyers, Guns & Money post highlights Jonathan Rauch’s move from a patrimonialism frame to explicitly labeling Trump’s rule fascist.
- Rauch argues the past year shows a drift toward doctrinal and operational fascism rather than mere personalist control.
- The analysis points to claims of unlimited power, politicized justice, performative brutality, ostentatious rights violations, paramilitary-style policing, and ties to the global far right.
- It emphasizes that the conclusion rests on the overall constellation of behaviors rather than any single event.
- The post contends that prior reluctance among critics to use the fascist label has been fading and now seems perverse.