Is Dimitri monarcho trash? Yes. Fash? Sorry, that's Edelgard. Her entire politics are literally a reaction to her personal childhood trauma she's seeking to totalize absolutely and fatally throughout the continent. She does want to get rid of the church, but as far as antihierarchy just wants to be able to handpick who nobles are and not necessarily base their lineages on crests. In her endings it's still all the rich noble children who run society and they all still have Noble Houses and lord over the common people, it's just that she's replaced Dragon Pope with herself. Also objectively it's worth noting she's being manipulated the entire time by a cadre of omnicidal nuclear maniacs, and that the morality of following a religion changes drastically in a world where the god(dess) in question is provably real, but ymmv.
The 3H leader with the closest thing to good politics is Claude, as he's explicitly anti racist, skeptical of power structures and anti-interventionist. He just wants a global multipolar system with porous borders, free trade and general peace. He's basically a liberal, which is really good for a setting stuck in the 1200s or so. Dimitri definitely represents early modern absolutism a la Louis XIV, but the closest to a fascist among the 3 is Edelgard herself.
EDIT: also, as more evidence against, she intentionally provokes a massive war of aggression complete with civilian-slaughtering land invasion, all in order to "regain" her "lost territory" hearkening back to a national mythos that hasn't been correct in three centuries similar to the shitheads that caused the two world wars in our world. She never not once even considers diplomatically reaching out to Claude, who shares a lot of her anti-clerical and anti-current authority sympathies, instead forcing him to oppose her by carving through Alliance lands by force. Personally, she has absolutely terrible judgement in ministers, giving Those Who Slither control over vast swathes of territory and letting the people suffer and die because of it.
Is Dimitri monarcho trash? Yes. Fash? Sorry, that's Edelgard. Her entire politics are literally a reaction to her personal childhood trauma she's seeking to totalize absolutely and fatally throughout the continent. She does want to get rid of the church, but as far as antihierarchy just wants to be able to handpick who nobles are and not necessarily base their lineages on crests. In her endings it's still all the rich noble children who run society and they all still have Noble Houses and lord over the common people, it's just that she's replaced Dragon Pope with herself. Also objectively it's worth noting she's being manipulated the entire time by a cadre of omnicidal nuclear maniacs, and that the morality of following a religion changes drastically in a world where the god(dess) in question is provably real, but ymmv.
The 3H leader with the closest thing to good politics is Claude, as he's explicitly anti racist, skeptical of power structures and anti-interventionist. He just wants a global multipolar system with porous borders, free trade and general peace. He's basically a liberal, which is really good for a setting stuck in the 1200s or so. Dimitri definitely represents early modern absolutism a la Louis XIV, but the closest to a fascist among the 3 is Edelgard herself.
EDIT: also, as more evidence against, she intentionally provokes a massive war of aggression complete with civilian-slaughtering land invasion, all in order to "regain" her "lost territory" hearkening back to a national mythos that hasn't been correct in three centuries similar to the shitheads that caused the two world wars in our world. She never not once even considers diplomatically reaching out to Claude, who shares a lot of her anti-clerical and anti-current authority sympathies, instead forcing him to oppose her by carving through Alliance lands by force. Personally, she has absolutely terrible judgement in ministers, giving Those Who Slither control over vast swathes of territory and letting the people suffer and die because of it.