Is the Trump administration Fascist? With Author Matthew Lyons

Since Donald Trump entered the presidential race ten years ago, activists and scholars have been debating whether to call his political project fascist. Trump's second administration has already gone far beyond the first one in its unprecedented efforts to grab power and suppress dissent, making the "Trump = fascism" case stronger than ever before. This talk will explore some of what's at stake in this discussion: what it tells us about the regime and the concept of fascism, how Trump's politics have evolved over the past decade, and what it all means for liberatory resistance strategy.

Matthew N. Lyons has been writing about right-wing politics for over 30 years. He is co-editor of Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism (2024) and author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire (2018). He writes regularly for the radical antifascist website Three Way Fight, and his work has also appeared…