LETTER: Can Donald Trump be called a democrat?
Asking if the US president is a fascist is not helpful
16 November 2020 - 17:30
Is President Trump a fascist, plotting a coup in his White House bunker? Disconcertingly, the answer to the question rests with us. Fascism lies on the right of the political spectrum, though precisely where right differs from centre-right and right-right, becomes far-right is for many to say and no-one to know.
Scanning a person’s attitudes and beliefs goes so far, but sentiments and issues always overlap, boundaries blur and collide with one another — until we are at some wild outer extreme where there are no limits. Plainly Trump is not there...
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