Donald Trump is not a fascist

 Fascist leaders tend to lust after other countries’ territory. By that measure Donald Trump is not a fascist. 

One of his most enduring appeals to the Maga base has been his rhetoric against America’s so-called forever wars. Put simply, Trump loves trade wars but is generally scornful of military ones. 

It was thus odd that Kamala Harris chose to appear more often in the campaign with Liz Cheney — daughter of Dick Cheney, co-author of the Iraq war, and herself a hardliner — than with Shawn Fain, head of the United Auto Workers union. 

Trump had a better gauge of America’s mood. But the price of America’s decision will mostly be paid at home. 

History may well record November 5 2024 as the day America repudiated the postwar world that it built.

Yet it was a long time coming.

Edward Luce Financial Times 26 November 2024

https://www.ft.com/content/b6b0e373-a77a-44d8-b8a2-e85af62ba7bd


Edward Luce is the US national editor and columnist at the Financial Times. Before that he was the FT's Washington Bureau chief. Other roles have included South Asia bureau chief, Capital Markets editor, and Philippines Correspondent. Luce was previously the speechwriter for the US Treasury Secretary, Lawrence H. Summers, in the Clinton administration.


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