Dispelling the notion that Trump is Hitler/Mussolini 2.0

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

The anti-Semetism specifically isn't the point. It's finding a minority group, and whipping up anger at them while using them as a scapegoat.

With the Slavs, again, the specific ethnicity isn't the point. (Although Donald does seem to have something for Eastern Europeans...) Like Hitler, Donald shows disdain for other nearby but "not us" ethnic groups. And yes, he displays delight verging on glee at the prospect of "putting them in their place". He's also openly advocated "taking the oil" of Islamic groups fighting in Syria, using the US military to do so.

Like the Nazi's, Trump is working hard to create an 'in-group' and an 'out-group', us vs. them, both domestically and internationally.

One characteristic of fascism is the desire to return the nation to a better bygone age. (That may never have existed.) While their visions of what that looks like may differ, it's absolutely something that Donald is doing.

No, Trump isn't a Mussolini or Hitler clone. History doesn't repeat, it rhymes. Donald's greatest departure from actual, academically-defined facism is that he 's not calling for the overthrow of the existing government and its institutions. At least not yet.
 

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

  Yes, I like the Berlusconi parallel as well. And yes, the Donald hasn't proposed a single structural change to the US constitution or democracy.  That, it strikes me is yet another fundamental aspect of making one a fascist in whichever century, the destruction of a constitutional democracy.   Ironically, IIRC the Italian post-fascists have called at one time or another for the direct election of the Presidency.  It would be funny if the Donald joined the direct election movement in the US.  I could see him calling the electoral college a bunch of low energy losers.

Given Trump and his supporters open disdain for the law or party process (except when its to their benefit, of course), I've got a sneaking suspicion that Donald had remained quiet about any desire to restructure government as a deliberate choice. He wouldn't want to open himself up to insurrection charges or anything like that. I wouldn't bet that we wouldn't see a Trump Administration ignoring laws it didn't like.