Fascism has arrived wearing a Christian mantle

America Now Has Its First Fascist President

Trump didn’t proclaim himself a fascist. Possibly he didn’t know or even now perhaps doesn’t know himself to be one. But he fits the definition, and now he fills the bill.

I n 1935, the third year of Hitler’s Third Reich, Sinclair Lewis published a novel called “It Can’t Happen Here,” speculating on the possibility that fascism might come to America. This spring, the legal scholar Cass Sunstein wondered in an article titled “Can It Happen Here?” whether a native fascism might now at last be in the offing.

Note to Sinclair and Cass: it has happened here. In Donald J. Trump, America now has its first fascist president.

Link: https://portside.org/2018-07-11/america-now-has-its-first-fascist-president