Fox News anchor Jesse Watters claimed Thursday most Americans don’t know what fascism is, amid an ongoing political discussion around the topic after former Donald Trump staffers claimed the Republican meets the defition of a fascist and praised Hitler.
“You can’t even define fascism,” Watters said during a discussion on The Five. “I challenge Kamala to tell us what it is. Because a majority of the country doesn’t know the word. She needs non-college educated Blacks, whites and Hispanics to turn out for her, and she is smearing her rival with a mid-20th century European political philosophy.”
“You think people don’t know what Hitler is?” Jessica Tarlov, a fellow panelist, asked in response.
Discussions about fascism have surged to the fore since staffers, including former White House chief of staff John Kelly, told The New York Times and The Atlantic that Trump wished for the generals “Hitler had” and that the former president had …