Is fascism the main danger today? : Trump and techno-neoliberalism

Last year, I was invited to speak at a symposium on state theory in Turkey. The theme I was given to speak on invoked “authoritarian, totalitarian, fascist states,” for reasons that will be obvious to anyone familiar with the political situation in Turkey: there is at least a very serious danger of the appearance of a fascist state form there today, though Turkish colleagues debate the precision of the application of the term “fascist” to the Erdoğan government. This careful consideration provided a jarring contrast with the ease with which contemporary commentators in the West, most particularly in and on America, are willing to diagnose fascism as already present in their midst.