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November 9, 2023 50 mins
From the anti-trans "parents' rights" bill to the rise of the Sask United Party, the province is moving aggressively to the right. People are increasingly using the term fascism to describe what they're seeing. But fascism is a specific type of right wing politics, and it's not a term to be used lightly. So Alex dug in to the political philosophy of fascism to figure out whether the fash in Sask are really ascendant.


Sources:

The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
The Nature of Fascism by Roger Griffin
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
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