How to Use fascism in a Sentence

fascism

noun
  • One of the points of the film is to say: This is the cause of fascism.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 28 May 2023
  • Gilead is on the rise, just like in this world where fascism is on the rise.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Nov. 2022
  • That all that’s left is going to be the road to fascism.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 10 June 2022
  • The story deals with arson as a metaphor for the rise of fascism.
    Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The monarchy faced threats from communism on the left and fascism on the right.
    Judy Berman, Time, 30 July 2021
  • This is the way fascism takes hold, regardless of how the sides are defined.
    Ken Kalfus, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2017
  • But in at least a few key areas, the fascism label doesn't fit.
    Leslie Gornstein, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2020
  • In the largest stadium in the city that gave rise to the Nazis, fascism no longer is a problem.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2021
  • This is the way the normalization of fascism and mass murder works, the film tells us.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2023
  • That is the path to illiberalism; there lies the road to fascism.
    Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Studio was the defining moment for the social fascism of that era.
    Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2018
  • Students learn about the rise of fascism and Nazism in Europe.
    Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Rather the two parties agreed to fight fascism together.
    Wayne Catan, idahostatesman, 9 June 2017
  • The two sides started arguing about fascism and the police.
    Mallory Moench, SFChronicle.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • If fascism comes to America, will it come wrapped in a lab coat?
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The same generation demonstrated that fascism was not the wave of the future.
    Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • For the past four years, potted histories have warned about the rise of fascism in the U.S.
    David Satter, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2020
  • America was fatally slow to respond to the full threat of fascism the last time around.
    Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Both men spoke of the rise of nationalism and fascism across Europe.
    Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 21 May 2018
  • Only the Democrats and the media can save democracy from fascism.
    Mary L. Trump, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The return of fascism and the idea that obedience is good scarily comes in cycles.
    John Benson, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
  • While the groups are not officially linked, many of them share the same goals – to stop modern day fascism.
    Monika Rębała, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2020
  • The adjective has been paired with everything from egotism to irony to fascism.
    Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Communism and fascism gained strength in the wake of economic problems.
    CNN, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Where does a resurgence in fascism among young people in the United States come from?
    John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The origins of the Alt-right Hate, white supremacy and fascism are nothing new.
    Michael Harriot, The Root, 7 Sep. 2017
  • No one ever says this about fascism, as Hannan points out.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 June 2021
  • This sense of process—that fascism is a living thing and not some page copied out of a history book—is useful.
    Katie McDonough, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2021
  • This was now a battle against fascism on American soil.
    Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2021
  • What lies in front of us are two choices: enlightenment or fascism.
    Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019

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