The word “fascist” is often dreadfully misused. But the parallels between Donald Trump and the fascist leaders of the Thirties – especially Britain’s Sir Oswald Mosley who was the founder of the British Union of Fascists – are too striking to be ignored. When commentators try to normalise the Trump triumph, it has a whiff of the attempts to normalise Hitler’s victory in 1933.
Mosley was, and Trump is, a very rich man, expensively educated, who persuaded the poorest people that their route out of poverty and powerlessness is to support policies and people which will make it easier for the rich to exploit them.
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