A Brief History of Fascist Lies

In a time when the American president demonizes journalists, even calling them “enemies of the people,” the independent press continues to report the lies and corroborate the facts

Another way of putting it: populism is fascism adapted to democracy

As I explained in my previous book, From Fascism to Populism in History, we are witnessing a new chapter in the history of fascism and populism, two different political ideologies that now share an objective: to foment xenophobia without preventing political violence. Fascist assassins and populist politicians maintain common goals.

It is based on the purely paranoiac fantasy that the weaker races aim to dominate the superior ones and that this is why the white races need to preemptively defend themselves.

Fascist racism itself is based on the lie that humans are hierarchically divided into master races and inferior races.

Thus, their lying in politics warrants a history of its own

Fascists consider their lies to be at the service of simple absolute truths, which are in fact bigger lies.

Trump himself identified his politics with a religious mandate, even claiming a relation between legality, the state, and the divine: “Our rights are not given to us by men; our rights are given to us from our creator. . . .