Fascism is an extreme right-wing authoritarian political ideology with the following major characteristics: * a demagogic, dictatorial leader presiding over a cult of personality * fixation on shared nationalistic mythology * militarism * use of political violence to suppress the opposition * disregard of the rule of law; belief that "might makes right" * belief in a "natural" social hierarchy * totalist thinking, with strong regimentation of society to enforce belief (or professed belief) in the ideology of the leader * [propaganda](https://doctorparadox.net/dictionaries/authoritarianism/propaganda/) * destruction of social unity and division of society into "us" and "them" factions * [[anti-intellectualism]] * politics of victimhood * sexual anxiety * dismantling of public welfare