A Fascist President in America ?
Whatever it's Called Trump has the hallmarks
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As a political reporter and a newspaper editor, calling an American politician a communist or a fascist was off limits. There were radical left wingers and radical right wingers but communists or fascists were the fringe.
With Donald Trump that's no longer true. Retired Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint chiefs of staff during the Trump Administration said the former President is "a fascist to the core." Scholars like Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley write about Trump's fascism.
To be sure, if Trump wins the election, there won't be a genocide, or extermination of political enemies or military conquests of foreign lands.
But he would be even more authoritarian than the first term, lashing out and prosecuting enemies, willing to use the military for political purposes with a disregard for the rule of law and a disdain for truth.
There are parallels to the 1930s. It's instructive to read the 1943 OSS World War II psychological profile of Adolph Hitler:
"His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people sooner or later believe it."
Reads like a profile of Donald J. Trump.