In his latest book Who is fascist (Laterza Publishers, 2019), the historian Emilio Gentile, Professor of contemporary history at La Sapienza University of Rome, he tells how «Trump is counted among the new fascists, Erdogan, Orban, Bolsonaro, By Maio Salvini».
On the alarm of a return of fascism, Professor Emilio Gentile explains that «in this desire to discover today's fascists, who are not like the fascists of the Mussolini era and are not even those who call themselves fascists today, but they are people and movements who deny being such, consists of the ambiguity and vagueness of the alarm over the risk looming over democracy of a return of fascism under other guises, which I believe doesn't really exist. However, there is actually a risk that, by seeing fascists everywhere, divert attention from other threats, these are truly real, which loom over democracy and which have nothing to do with fascism, in whatever guise you want to imagine him".
Gentile also explains that «most movements and governments, democratically elected, today accused of being fascists in other guises, fascists they are not. Indeed, they are the extremists of the democratic method, to the point of demanding direct democracy".
A La7, a few months ago, Emilio Gentile explained to Enrico Mentana: «We find ourselves at the beginning of the twenty-first century recognizing that practically almost the entire world is infected with fascism. This doesn't help to understand what is happening in Italy […] It becomes an alibi because when you identify an enemy you try to unite everything against it and magnify it when in reality it is not a real danger and you ignore the real danger […]. There is a phenomenon, an emptying of what democracy is, as a method and an ideal, even in older and more consolidated democracies".
Source – https://oltrelalinea.news/2019/05/07/rinascita-del-fascismo-una-falsita-parola-di-emilio-gentile/