The firebrand progressive, a favorite target of Republicans and an occasional thorn in the side of the Democratic establishment, had a message to deliver about party unity.
Then she dropped an f-bomb: The election, she said, was about “stopping fascism in the United States.
Ocasio-Cortez had used a word that other DNC luminaries had avoided during the first two days of the convention.
One reason it remains taboo in the mainstream to label Donald Trump a fascist is that Trump is uniquely American.
It’s hard to imagine another culture that could produce the brash New York City mafia don/reality TV celebrity.
If this line of reasoning is right, Moyn cautions, “most of modern political history is fascist, latently or openly.”. »