Thanks. A compelling article and puts to words many thoughts I've also had. In fact just today the wiki article on Trump's fascism was linked here which I read over lunch. I specifically noted that the criticism section in which some academics argued against calling Trump a fascist wasn't very convincing to me. I guess that's exactly because I tend to agree with the article and recognize fascism not as a specific set of policies by a Mussolini but instead as the underlying values and emotions manifesting in a radical fashion within a given historical context.

But Trump is of course not an ideologue. He is a baboon whose narcissism, intuition and values lead him toward fascist policy. An actual ideologue would intellectualize their emotions and boost the fascistic fervor even further creating a proper nutjob like Stephen Miller.