Joel Kotkin: Yes, fascism is a threat — but it's coming from the left

Fascism is in the air, on television and print. We read about American progressive celebrities and academics fleeing to other countries like the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada to exercise their notion of a free society. In her campaign, after all, Kamala Harris called Donald Trump a “president of the United States who admires dictators and is a fascist.”

To be sure, Trump’s hysterical antics remind one of Benito Mussolini, but the long-term undermining of such things as free speech comes not primarily from MAGA land but in the favoured precincts of the progressives. The defenders of democracy, like Anne Applebaum , a brilliant analyst of Communist repression, and noted fascism scholar Timothy Snyder , now at the University of Toronto, focus their current angst almost exclu