After days of declaring that Donald Trump admires Adolf Hitler and dismissing evidence that his scoop that Trump cursed in a racist manner at the cost of a military funeral was false, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, took his place in the anchor’s chair of PBS’s Washington Week with The Atlantic and declared it is only “allegedly extreme” for Kamala Harris to label Trump a fascist.
Goldberg first needed a definition, and for that he turned to fellow Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum, “So, you’re a scholar, among other things, of Soviet communism and authoritarianism generally. What is fascism?”
Applebaum replied with a broad definition:
So, fascism was a movement that was created in the 1930s and it has — it’s hard to define because it’s really — it’s more about emotion over reason. It’s about creating a leader who says…
