
A better term would be right-wing populist or illiberal authoritarian Trump isn’t ideologically motivated like fascists, he’s a non-ideological pragmatist focused on his own interests rather than the state’s We still have an independent Congress, independent judicial branch, and a system with checks and balances Calling Trump a fascist just doesn’t fit the definition of fascism beyond the one-sentence summary
I think we’re getting caught up on semantics too much yk; bc I fully agree regarding the frameworks of fascism being the institutional foundations of this nation - we’ve always been fascist (to the point that we inspired many of the tactics the Nazis of the third reich used, such as using gas in their concentration camps (see our “bracero program” and its method for “decontaminating” immigrants via fumigation) but I believe trump absolutely is a fascist, even if he may not identically match the