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[edit]protofascist (not comparable)
- (politics) Showing the beginnings of fascism. [20th c.]
- Hypernym: prefascist
- 1991 August 9, Jack Helbig, “Marie and Bruce”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- Even Lemon, for all her protofascist beliefs, wins our sympathy.
- 2008 April 7, Adolph Reed Jr., The Nation[2], archived from the original on 18 March 2009:
- When Newt Gingrich and his protofascist comrades took over Congress in 1994, they sneeringly boasted that they intended to take the federal government back to the 1920s.
Noun
[edit]protofascist (plural protofascists)
- (historical) One whose beliefs resembled fascism before the founding of fascism in 1919. [20th c.]
- Synonym: prefascist
- The Social Darwinists are sometimes considered protofascists.
- (derogatory) One whose opinions or policies show the beginnings of fascism.
- That congressman is a protofascist.
- 1989 April 30, Martha Bayles, “Taking Sitcoms Seriously”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN:
- Along with stereotype-mongering phrases like “redneck America's life in the electronic theme park,” he occasionally reduces his countrymen to mindless proto-fascists.
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[edit]protofascist m (plural protofascisten, diminutive protofascistje n, feminine protofasciste)
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