No, and the concept implicitly pedalled in this thread that any right-wing nationalist agenda is fascist cheapens the term significantly. Many of these alleged indicators of fascism (e.g. disproportionate focus on the military) are standard policies of the United States government going back decades. He is disturbingly authoritarian, but fortunately this sort of thing is what the Constitution is for.
Cheapens which term 'right wing nationalist' or 'fascist'?
A valid question, isn't it? To say that it cheapens the word "fascist" would imply that its usage has meant anything since 1945.
People in Spain who lived under Franco might disagree with you on that.
Touche. Would that the Anglophones have considered that before throwing the word fascist around as a cheap insult and making light of the horrors of the fascist regimes.
Probably no more so than those who make a cheap insult of referring to liberals as 'communists' or 'communists/socialists.'
Of course, referring to Trump as an 'aspirational fascist' is not a cheap insult, but is, as I've argued here, a plain statement of fact.
He aspires to lead an ethno-state with society itself organized along militaristic lines and a planned economy geared towards maximizing efficiency? I never would have guessed he had such ideological vision.
He and much of his base would aspire for the bolded part, and planned economies aren't a defining feature of fascist governments.
