According to Robert Paxton, and many others, Trump is the definition of a Fascist. I never read knew what a Fascist believed, until a friend sent me the quote from Paxton. Wow, they should have Boss Hogg’s picture along with the definition…
In his 2004 book The Anatomy of Fascism, Paxton refines his five-stage model and puts forward the following definition for fascism:
Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood 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 libertiesand pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals.
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