
Fascism is best identified as a political movement, not as a system of government. It is a process by which people take power by invoking a mythic glorious past, scapegoating one particular group for all of society’s problems, and making the public lose trust in established institutions. Fascism is obsessed with purity, appearance of strength, oversimplification of problems, and thus often leads to authoritarian regimes that pretend to be “for the people” when they are only for a specific group