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Professor and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has openly defined Trump as a fascist. [195] [196] [197] The Economist said it was reasonable to describe Trump as a modern iteration of fascism. [198] Howard French stated that Trump is a fascist, but questioned whether the message would have helped Democrats to win the 2024 election. [199]
Despite claims that President-elect Donald Trump is a fascist, he does not fit the historical definition of the term, as he has not implemented institutional censorship or suppression of ...
Fascism is a dirty word in US politics, so when former President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, says Trump fits the definition of “fascist,” it’s news.
Despite the similarities, Connolly stresses that Trump is no Nazi but is "an aspirational fascist who pursues crowd adulation, hyperaggressive nationalism, white triumphalism, and militarism, pursues a law-and-order regime giving unaccountable power to the police, and is a practitioner of a rhetorical style that regularly creates fake news and ...
While Trump’s rhetoric and some policies may be authoritarian and nationalistic, they lack the full structure and ideological underpinnings of classic fascism. Opinion - Calling Trump ‘fascist ...
Then, Trump's longest-serving former chief of staff, retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, warned that the former president meets the definition of a fascist. He said Trump, while in office, suggested that Hitler “did some good things," and that Trump valued personal loyalty above the Constitution.
Whether a certain government is to be characterized as a fascist (radical authoritarian nationalist) government, an authoritarian government, a totalitarian government, a police state or some other type of government is often a matter of dispute. The term "fascism" has been defined in various ways by different authors.
John Kelly, Trump's former chief-of-staff, says he fits the definition of a 'fascist.' But what does the often-used, less-often-defined term mean?