If he walks like a fascist and talks like a fascist… One of Donald Trump’s four chiefs of staff during his single term in office, John Kelly danced around directly calling Trump a fascist when a reporter for the New York Times asked him, but he said Trump “certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.”
“Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It’s a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy,” Kelly said citing a definition he found online. “So certainly, in my experience, those are the kinds of things that he thinks would work better in terms of running America,” adding, “Certainly the former president is in the far-right area, he’s certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators — he has said that. So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.”