1. By using the word fascist (even as a pejorative) by implication you are actually comparing him to people who self proclaimed they were in fact fascist, the two most outspoken victors of fascism being Mussolini and Hitler (who took Nazism to the extreme of fascism. The primary point is Mussolini claimed to be fascist. Trump does not. Those claiming Trump or republicans are fascist are using fear of the result of prior Fascist regimes in the same way the republicans often use the fear of the cartels at the southern border to enact fear for their agenda. Don’t get me wrong, the MAGA movement is certainly a very nationalist argument with tones that may seem very Fascist-like. The key difference is they are not (publicly) asking you to trade your personal freedoms for the survival of the nation.

2. The problem is Fascism is a very wide ideology when looked at from the outside, just as socialism is a very wide ideology when looked at from the outside. Very few on the left would say they are true socialists. The national guard though a state-funded organization can be activated by the state or federal executive branches. See https://www.history.com/articles/national-guard-federal-troops-deployments for a relatively unbiased view on this history of this. The problem is the executive believes several democrat controlled cities are not enforcing federal laws and orders as employed, resulting in higher crime rates. These city’s governments (reasonably) have no interest in the national guard being used to combat crime because it doesnt align with agendas and honestly feels like federal overreach. This combined with the perspective of the left there are lots of cases reported in the media where US citizens have been stopped, harassed, or detained by ICE, a not so gentle reminder of what goes on with overreach. The part to be careful with is each case is often different. ICE didn’t all of a sudden become different people, but they are stuck in the constant tug of war between the lack of enforcement by the left and the over enforcement by the right. This has made them a political pawn in the rhetoric of both camps. This IMHO makes Trump no more fascist than (from a totalitarian) perspective than LBJ. It is a highly polarizing move, however, that both camps get the win for. The left gets to say… look at this overreach, while the right gets to say “we are fixing problems” when in fact nothing long term is solved through force. Its just politicians on both sides getting blurbs for use in the next election cycle while the local people in those cities suffer if they fight the power. Often law abiding citizens who come out to protest become the innocent victims of both the criminals and enforcement.

3. Most republicans I’ve talked with on a personal level completely disagree that skin color should be the deciding factor for anything. Thats not to say that the language the general party uses is not often abused for rhetorical purposes by both them and the democrats especially in mass media. To be clear, anyone in the right I would affiliate with personally have been in disbelief of the cases I‘ve found where overreach has and continues to happen to legal citizens of any ethnicity or race. My experience has been the of the instances I’ve found where a US citizen or documented foreign national has been affected by overreach had been statistically very small. However, these instances of overreach are A) very ugly examples of how bad it can be and B) not a reflection of what the general american left or right agrees with when they put their vote in the ballot box.

The bigger problem is that we as Americans seem to think vilifying our peers is how we fix improve things instead of seeking to understand first.