"The Label Now Seems Not Just Acceptable but Necessary"

"Like Hitler, among the first political leaders to master radio, Trump mastered electronic media like Twitter and won the support of America's largest television chain, Fox News. Like the fascist leaders Trump understood the deep disaffection of parts of society for traditional leaders and institutions, and he knew how to exploit a widespread fear of national division and decline. Like Hitler and Mussolini he knew how to pose as the only effective bulwark against an advancing Left, all the more fearful because it took on cultural forms unfamiliar to provincial rural America—feminism, Black Power, gay rights."

In a 2021 Newsweek article, Robert O. Paxton calls Donald Trump a fascist.

And at The Bulwark, Gabriel Schoenfeld writes, "After all, it is Trump himself—and figures close to him—who for years now have been stoking the flames of discord in fascist-lite mode."