Donald Trump: A literal Fascist

In today’s day and age definitions of political ideologies are very much so lost. The idea of Communism closely related or plain simply called authoritarian, Anarchism called foolish, etc., but one thing is for sure: Donald Trump draws multiple parallels to Adolf Hitler and the system of Fascism. Now, what makes me say that exactly? Well, let’s look at Robert Paxton’s definition of Fascism from The Anatomy of Fascism it is described as “a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.” These are all hauntingly similar to everything Donald Trump has spewed or proposed. Likewise when we look at the prospect of antisemitism in Hitler’s propaganda we see that in the beginning Hitler’s appeal of antisemitism was not so genuine nor violent, but was provided to the masses as a form of unifying the masses. This strikes many parallels with that of Donald Trump’s propaganda against Mexicans. 

I will not say WHO to vote for, but I will say this much: Donald Trump is a fascist.