Much ink has been spilled on the question of whether Donald Trump is a fascist. This debate recently came to the fore after top Trump advisors said that their former boss “falls into the general definition of fascist” and is “fascist to the core”—comments that Democrats have amplified. Meanwhile, notable scholars who rejected the label for Trump in past election cycles have changed their minds after Jan. 6, 2021.
FP columnist Howard W. French argues that Trump is indeed a fascist and that his campaign has flailed in its attempts to refute those claims. But, French writes, “The question before the entire nation now is whether any of this will matter in what is projected to be an extremely close election.”
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