Have been asking the netsifter at various times. The answer can be paraphrased as ‚not at this point, but clear risk factors are present‘, which are increasingly crystallizing as follows:

1. Personalist leadership over institutions

A classic fascist pattern is loyalty to a leader, not to laws or institutions.

2. Delegitimizing democracy itself

Fascist movements often keep elections while insisting the system is rigged unless they win.

3. The “enemy within” narrative

Fascism thrives on defining internal enemies as existential threats.

4. Nationalism fused with grievance

Fascist movements often promise national rebirth after humiliation.

5. Use (and tolerance) of political violence

Fascism doesn’t always start violence—but it excuses it.

6. Attacks on independent media and truth

Fascist systems replace shared reality with leader-approved narratives.

7. Law-and-order selectively applied

Authoritarian systems often weaponize the law unevenly.

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