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- noun The holding of
fascist views inprivate orsecret
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Examples
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A return to our pre-war crypto-fascism would be far, far worse than the original.
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The rampaging wrath of the idiocracy from the still reverberating crypto-fascism of Cheney through the stultifyingly incendiary narcissism of Sarah "Duh?"
Steven Weber: Project for the New American Century 2: Rise of the Dopes 2009
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I suppose Jonathan's point is that the right would not get away with it because there would be opposition from the left complaining of crypto-fascism or whatever.
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Meanwhile, architecture critics have descended upon Beijing to visit the city's new trophy buildings, seeing in them signs of everything from crypto-fascism to architecture's power to democratize.
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I am only forced to believe this is a mix of plutocracy, crypto-fascism and some other things I'm sure you can figure out, just to hide what's really behind the curtain.
John Conyers; Don't Be Brave. Be Smart- Smart Enough to Use the Claw of the Impeachment Hammer. 2008
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In fact for some I imagine it will be taken as evidence of my crypto-fascism.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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Is it just a touch of crypto-fascism within me that means I occasionally agree with those that say that there should be a cut off point after which someone who has no intention whatsoever of being a useful member of society, whether through employment or otherwise should be cut off, completely.
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Is it just a touch of crypto-fascism within me that means I occasionally agree with those that say that there should be a cut off point after which someone who has no intention whatsoever of being a useful member of society, whether through employment or otherwise should be cut off, completely.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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This is more of the crypto-fascism of the Democrat party.
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She clearly has never read Ayn Rand (crypto-fascism?) and appears to be incapable of anything other than childish name-calling.
BusinessWeek.com -- 2009
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