He really is just a wannabe fascist.
"after he called for a
“total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” in December 2015, as a response to the San Bernardino terrorist attack.
At that point, the Muslim ban proposal, I
contacted five fascism experts and asked them if Trump qualified. They all said no. Every one of them stated that
to be a fascist, one must support the revolutionary, usually violent overthrow of the entire government/Constitution, and reject democracy entirely. In 2015,
Five years have now passed,.....So I reached out to the experts I talked to back then. Four of the five replied, and I also got in touch with a few more scholars who have researched fascism to get a broader view."
Call him a kleptocrat, an oligarch, a xenophobe, a racist, even an authoritarian. But he doesn’t quite fit the definition of a fascist.
www.vox.com
"The responses were, again, unanimous, albeit tinged with much greater concern about Trump’s authoritarian and violent tendencies. No one thinks Trump is a fascist leader.
Roger Griffin, the author of
The Nature of Fascism and a professor of history at Oxford Brookes University, summed it up well: “You can be a total xenophobic racist male chauvinist bastard and still not be a fascist.”