"[Spiegelman] has no hesitation in describing the Trump administration as fascist. 'It’s #fascism,' he says. 'It’s not nazism, per se, but it has a template that it’s following. And it does have to do with othering, which is the basis of what Maus is about, it’s: ‘OK, you guys are mice, we’re cats.’ Maus is among the many books to be banned by various Republican school boards in recent years."
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