"Is Trump a fascist?"
Deciding if someone is a fascist is a diagnosis, which Is an inductive process, a matter of pattern recognition, and if someone doesn't want to believe that Trump is a fascist, then they are not going to be persuaded.
But for the rest of us, it is to be looked into as a matter of urgency.
Dr Laurence Britt has studied a number of fascist regimes, and the lines below are based on his list of symptoms, which he published in 2003.
I have marked the characteristics identified by Britt as follows:
# = Trump ticks the box.
1. Nationalism - flags everywhere. America First #
2. Disdain for Human Rights. Torture is OK #
3. Enemy or scapegoat(s) - in Trump’s case, immigrants #
4. Militarisation - desire for parades #
5. Sexism, male dominant #
6. Media control #
7. Obsession with National Security (Troops on the street) #
8. Use of religion #
9. Corporate power #
10. Labour suppression #
11. Disdain for intellectuals and arts #
12. Obsession with Crime and punishment; police state #
13. Cronyism and corruption #
14. Fraudulent elections. #
So Trump scores 14/14 already.
He is well on his way to being the first fascist President of the USA.
This is bad news, but the good news is that whereas in the 1930s they didn’t know about WWII, the War on Fascism, now in 2025 we do, so we will all be out to stop Trump in his tracks.
The USA yesterday was out on the streets protesting against Trump. Here in the UK, or task is to oppose Farage, our Trump lookalike.
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