Fascism Was Interwar‑Bound

Gottfried argues fascism was a revolutionary right movement specific to the interwar period and tied to threats to the bourgeois order. After WWII, its conflation with Nazism made it politically radioactive, and no fascist regimes have existed since. The modern use of 'fascist' mostly functions as polemics rather than accurate classification. — This reframes current fear narratives by suggesting future right‑wing upheavals will not be 'fascist' replicas, pushing analysts to develop new, historically appropriate categories.