Is Marine Le Pen a fascist?

[ApatheticAustrian]

always depends which goal-post you need.

it is enough to say nice things about fascists?
trying to get the fascist vote?
having a fascist worldview, campaigning as one or acturally governing like one?

do you need to commit genocide or is erdogan/orban-style enough?

[ApatheticAustrian]

Neither; in order to be a fascist you need to be a fascist. Orbán and Erdogan (and Putin) are authoritarians but no fascists.

well, i think the idea about being the "sacred people", which is common inside of orban's/erdogan's and putin's philosophy, and the need to make abroad citizens still feel like being part of "the family" is at least an indicator (along with a few other traits) but if we go for a full italian-fascism-like-check-list this is surely quite difficult to argue.

re: marine...she is at a minimum courting fascist voters.

[ApatheticAustrian]

don't know about your politically privileged americans but it's not soooo hard to find fascist-supporting parties and politicans inside of european parliaments. (a few years earlier joined by stalinists)