What is fascism – and does Trump's victory really show it on the rise?

Right-wing politicians are regularly labelled fascists, but what does the term actually mean?

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Oxford Dictionaries this week chose "post-truth" as its new word of the year. It could instead have opted for an old term that is very much in use in 2016: "fascism".

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