crypto-fascist
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See also: cryptofascist
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]crypto-fascist (plural crypto-fascists)
- A person whose fascist views or motives are kept private or secret.
- 1947 October 27, Claude Pepper, quotee, “Pepper Asks Fight to Save Liberties”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- The American people will no longer retreat from “crypto-fascists” attacking their civil liberties, but will stand and fight for basic democracy, Senator Claude Pepper, Democrat, of Florida, declared yesterday at the closing session of the conference on cultural freedom and civil liberties at the Hotel Commodore.
Translations
[edit]a person who holds fascist views secretely
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Adjective
[edit]crypto-fascist (comparative more crypto-fascist, superlative most crypto-fascist)
- Having private or secret fascist views or motives.
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[edit]secretly holding fascist views
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