crypto-fascism

American  

[krip-toh-fash-iz-uhm] / ˌkrɪp toʊˈfæʃ ɪz əm /

Or cryptofascism

noun

1. secret support for fascism.

   The party's program contains underlying crypto-fascism that many have commented on.

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Etymology

Origin of crypto-fascism

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Joyce is a byword for difficulty and obscurity, Lawrence for weedy crypto-fascism and misogyny, but Woolf’s work, while densely lyrical and complex, has such apparent availability that it prompts near universal adoration in critics, writers, students and book clubs.

From New York Times

It’s horrible now, and given the weaponizing of white supremacy and white innocence and white gullibility as a political tool for manipulation and crypto-fascism, it is indeed highly unnerving.

From Salon

I reject out of hand the notion that we have thrown up our hands and succumbed to racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and crypto-fascism.

From Los Angeles Times

If this were a sufficient explanation, though, one would expect Trump’s own peculiar brand of Home Shopping Network crypto-fascism to track those anxieties, and one would expect the most marginalized and threatened among us to be most taken with it.

From The New Yorker

Intransigently anti-Fascist and bent on exposing what Fo considers crypto-Fascism, the play is deeply concerned with the exploitation of workers under whatever form of economy and government.

From Time Magazine Archive