"Not all reactionaries and authoritarians are fascists. Former President George W. Bush generally is not considered fascists because he is a member of a political establishment rather than a revolutionary rightist. Both men are certainly warmongers, but they represent the current system in place in their respective nations. Trump, on the other hand, bucked Jeb Bush and the Republican establishment as a populist outsider from the right in 2016. Since then, Trump has ignored a long list of democratic norms culminating in his refusal to concede in the last election."
Mike Ludwig at Truthout interviews Joe Broich, who says that "fascism has to attack an established, older right…. That is impossible for Jeb Bush, but it was explicitly what Trump did."
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