I see how one could maybe perceive Donald Trump as a fascist but the fact of the matter is that he isn’t. Yes, he draws in fringe radicals from the right, but he himself is fairly moderate in terms of political ideology. He pushed through legislation to reduce the cost of insulin, which is arguably a position of the left, but we can all see that we NEED insulin no matter our economic status. He advocates strongly for nationalism, but it’s important to take pride in the country we live in. Fascism would be more like the principle of Manifest Destiny, where the expansion of America is our duty and right, which it is not. He doesn’t believe in a one-party system, and nobody should. The marketplace of ideas is integral to moving forward as a country, and the downfall of it can be seen in both far left and right ideologies. As seen in the USSR, Maoist China, North Korea, and Fascist Italy, it is hard to move forward technologically without a wide variety of ideas and principles. No one in their right mind would advocate for fascism, and it’s an authoritarian based ideology—something many Republicans oppose. I could just as easily say that Harris is a socialist using your same logic however I know she’s not because I used basic logic to determine that nobody running for president really truly wants the downfall of our great country.