It’s absurd to call Trump a fascist

Many thousands of words have been written and many more will now be written by the liberal intelligentsia on trying to prove that the 45th President of the United States of America is a fascist. Among the first to leap out of the starting blocks after the triumph of Trump was the hyper-trendy historian Simon Schama who tweeted at dawn on Wednesday to say: ‘This calamity for democracy will of course hearten fascists all over the world’. The trouble is: Trump is not a fascist, let alone a nazi. Even calling him Donald Duck would be more accurate than calling him Donald Duce. The main reason that Trump is, in fact, not a fascist is the most embarrassing of all (at least for the left that is): Trump is not left-wing. For when left-wingers call hate figures ‘fascists’ nearly always they themselves have much more in common with fascism than their hate figures do.