Is Trump a fascist? An interesting discussion here: nyti.ms/2YsYsTE
Oddly, the article does not discuss Umberto Eco's essay from 1995 "Ur-Fascism" where he reduces the qualities of what he calls “Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism” down to 14 “typical” features.
“These features," writes the novelist and semiotician, "cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.”
