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Originally Posted by Yu Ominae
I feel like this view (or using fascist) is a word that's easily thrown around.
While people dislike (and I do agree in some aspects) that Abe and his family have "interesting links" with religious groups like the Unification Church and the scandals that came around him with the LDP alongside the usual downplay of what Imperial Japan did, Abe didn't do anything that would suggest a dictatorship and there's no major cases of election fraud nor is there any cases of the media being "attacked".
Personally, I'd throw those in with Duterte (and maybe Marcos Jr.).
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I would compare Shinzo Abe with Ronald Reagan. Obviously the USA is not a dictatorship, but IMO he weakened the democracy in said country (gop legislators didn't use to be spineless minions) and is the main reason there is today a clear and present danger of the USA doing the oligarch model (I call it neo-feudalism) putin implemented in russia in the near future.