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Readers respond to Daniel Trilling’s article asking if fascism is making a comebackAs an analysis of rightwing populism, Daniel Trilling’s argument works well enough (The impossible promise: are we witnessing the return of fascism?, 18 April). We cannot assume that fascism will always take the same form, rather than adapt to, and try to provide answers to, events as they unfold.Fascism might best be seen as history’s punishment for the failed universalism of the Enlightenment project – the failu

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