(ELI5) what actually is a facist
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Here is the definition given by Timothy Snyder in a live interview (39 minutes into [this interview](https://wakingup.libsyn.com/301-the-politics-of-unreality-ukraine-and-nuclear-risk)):
“Fascism is the idea that it’s not rationality that is the basis on which we build politics, it is will and imagination; that rules are not the basis upon which we interact, we interact on the basis of strength; strength is always proven as a matter of practice, therefore endless conflict is entirely normal; and given all that, politics begins not with any kind of mutual recognition, but with the choice of an enemy: “when I choose my enemy, then I know who I am, and the moment I’ve chosen an enemy, that’s when politics can actually begin.”
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