Fascist or Anti-fascist? Mencken’s prediction

Lucky guess, or prescient? H.L. Mencken writing in 1938:

Fascism is not likely to be identical with the kinds on tap in Germany, Italy and Russia; indeed it is very apt to come in under the name of anti-Fascism.

Source: H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Sun, November 6, 1983, p. 8. Quoted in L. K. Samuels’s Killing History, p. 93.

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