@ Marianne:
I found the Gonin link. Most of what he says is correct, although I would style Trump as reactionary rather than fascist. And a reaction to what? To blatant corruption, selective enforcement of laws for political advantage, and almost daily lying by high administration officials that insults the intelligence of any thinking person. But of course these scoundrels are not addressing anyone intelligent... just that segment of the population that listens to no more than sound bites, and of course all politicians do that to a greater or lesser extent, but I would judge Democrats to be worse overall in that regard than Republicans.
Gonin did make one mistake in the interview: "Europeans have good memories. They know “that America has come to its defense twice,” Gonin said. “We want a sheriff, but not a violent one.” "
Twice? I would say three times in the 20th century, and the sheriff had to be quite violent in two of them, and had to threaten extreme violence in the third, to hold the Soviets at bay.