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"The post-fascist system has become a pre-fascist one," the German Socialist Student Union declared in their indictment hours after the killing.
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Their deep frustration about the loss of their empire and super-power status in 1989-91 has some observers led to speak of a "Weimar syndrome" and to compare post-Soviet Russia with pre-fascist Germany.
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The system has become so thoroughly corrupted that some have now labeled our country a "pre-fascist state."
OpEdNews - Diary: Letter to My Norwegian Cousin Re the Truth of Today's America 2009
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We are smack in the middle of a pre-fascist condition.
Obama: National Journal Rating Of Me As "Number One Liberal" Is Bogus 2009
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In a 2006 series of speeches conservative Baptist scholar David P. Gushee noted with concern that narratives of cultural complaint and despair to be found currently on the American right share much in common with similar narratives that flourished in pre-fascist and pre-World War Two Germany:
Bruce Wilson: Hagee Mass-Marketed Hitler's Favorite Conspiracy Theory 2008
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At a dark time, when a sick and treasonous cabal led by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld was furiously dragging America into a pre-fascist state (and doing their best to strip away that "pre" once and for all), our media was staring dumbly at an "opaque world."
John Eskow: A Million People Murdered For a Lie, and To Tom Brokaw It's Just Business As Usual 2008
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For one thing, the influence of Leo Strauss can be regarded as the result of a pre-fascist atmosphere in America.
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Abuses detected by the delegation seem to have been no worse than those often found in the United States, or Italy, or pre-fascist and pre-Communist Eastern Europe.
Democracy in Romania? Bogdan, Radu J. 1992
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A detailed discussion of fascist education, including an historical introduction to pre-fascist education.
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Adorno and his colleagues argued that conservatism was little more than a "pre-fascist" "personality type."
Classical Values escheie@verizon.net 2010
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