Who Is the Real Fascist — Trump, or Obama and Hillary?

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Analysis of the fascist lunacy of Donald Trump is increasingly filling the wires. Salon runs two articles with titles: “Donald Trump’s Historically Challenged Multitude: Fascist Is Seeming Less and Less Hyperbolic When Describing the Bloviating GOP Front-Runner;” and “Trump’s Not Hitler, He’s Mussolini: How GOP Anti-Intellectualism Created a Modern Fascist Movement in America.”

But the most interesting article is from the Telegraph‘s Tim Stanley, a British historian who has written a book on Robert Kennedy. His headline, “Donald Trump Is Not a Fascist, and Violence Is Nothing New in American Politics,” sounds like a defense of Trump. But he argues, truthfully:

Trump’s views are unconstitutional, illiberal and sometimes they trigger hate. But he did not take America to war in Iraq on flimsy evidence, establish Guantanamo in contravention of human rights law or license the torture of enemy combatants, oversee the gargantuan NSA data-gathering operation, launch a dirty war of drone strikes against both terrorists and those unfortunate enough to live near them, undermine the religious freedoms of employers who do not want to subsidize the sex lives of their workers, overrule the states’ wishes on marriage, compel citizens to buy healthcare products or deport thousands of illegals through aggressive round-ups.

Stanley concludes: “Trump is not a political crisis in isolation but, rather, a symptom of wider institutional failure. A symptom of American political decline.”

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