Why Trump is a Fascist

Thanks for the list, Chauncey Devega.

• Donald Trump does not believe in freedom of the press.
• Donald Trump threatens his political enemies with violence and/or prison.
• Donald Trump uses ethnocentrism, bigotry, nativism and racism to mobilize his voters.
• Donald Trump does not believe in standing norms of democratic governance or tradition.
• Donald Trump is a misogynist.
• Donald Trump is obsessed with “strength” and his own “virility.”
• Donald Trump promises “law and order.”
• Donald Trump is a militant nationalist.
• Donald Trump traffics in conspiracy theories and lies.
• Donald Trump admires authoritarians and political strongmen.
• Donald Trump’s most recent press conference was modeled on the way Vladimir Putin manipulates Russia’s news media.
• Donald Trump has surrounded himself with a cabal that consists of family members and self-interested Cabinet appointees, who — like him — stand to enrich themselves through the agencies they are supposed to administer in the public interest.