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This is apologist rhetoric, and since you are the OP, it is telling that you found this crap worth posting to start with.

You are not persuaded yet huh? And think Rogan is middle of the tent? He might be an idiot but he is squarely right wing you know, unless you know utter shit about politics. And you are watering down who is a fascist and who is not? You know Kirk had lists with targeted academics whom his fan-base harassed? Threatening academics for being woke is an anti-intellectual fascist tactic.

It really doesn't matter how you dress your world and gloss over reality, but there is a huge overlap between MAGA and authoritarian regimes worldwide, especially the Nazi party. People who don't see that it is mainly because they have zero idea about what the Nazi party was, except for "the absolute evil", and then pearl-clutch and say "they call me a nazi for being a militarist racist transphobe and because I believe in nationalism and traditional family values". Well, yeah? That was what a fucking nazi was, you pitiful ignoramus. What you nowadays call a "centrist".

Questioning whether "it is formally fascist" regarding the christian nationalist and organized racist forces behind this systematic attack on check and balances of the executive branch is simply SEALIONING.

• It is a historical fact that America has not only undergone an autocratic power grap, that was deliberately engineered and outlined in Project 2025, but that it is already half-way implemented.
• It is also a fact that rounding up undesirables to prison camps as well as the persecution and scapegoating of trans people closely parallel the early stages of the Jewish Holocaust and the enslavement of a large part of the European population in different types of camps.
• It is a fact that Trump wants to destroy the separation of government functions, and uses the military against his own population to drown dissidence.

Your own fucking intelligence service says so. What you are doing is really actionable, because if you are not simply a useful idiot, you are an active operative. As an added bonus, he poses with established nazi apologists among young Republicans. And you are STILL MOVING THE GOALPOSTS ABOUT WHAT A FASCIST IS THEORETICALLY?

If you don't see that already, there really isn't reason to waste time on you personally or any other regime apologist. You are the type of person who will tell us we are overreacting until there are actual gas chambers, and then claim it never happened. The more your side pushes in the direction of barbarism and inhumanity, the sooner this will be solved by the fourth box. Humanity has rejected your ideas with deadly force, and it will again. Case is closed.

how does one actually define a fascist?

Ever heard of a dictionary? Wikipedia? This "Just asking questions bro" shit went out of style like 10 years ago. It doesn't make you broad minded, it flags you as empty minded. Youtube exists, go educate yourself. Don't put it on everybody else.

As for violence, there are a lot of people who have been killed this year whose death everyone has been cheering but who doesn’t have a history of violence (or even direct control over human life).

There's a semi-famous (and oft-misquoted) quote:

"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." - Clarence Darrow

The point is, it's possible to take great satisfaction in the fact that someone died (or was killed) while not condoning the act itself, or supporting carrying it out. You can like the outcome even if you don't support the method.

I don't condone killing these people, but I do think the world is better off without some of them.

I'm not gonna spoon feed you one of the most well documented ideologies in human history. At this point the Trump admin and entire GOP are mirroring the nazi's in dozens of ways, so if you actually do want to know what a fascist is, and aren't asking in bad faith, read any of the hundreds of reputable history books, or watch any of the multi-part documentaries created over the last 80 years.