Please don't take HN threads further into partisan flamewar or ideological flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> forced you to think outside of the narrow box you're used to thinking in.

That's quite insulting, as you don't know the first thing about me or my method of thinking.

>Fascism is on the rise in America

How would one even go about quantifying this?

Or, possibly, one could object to threat inflation and using words to mean whatever you want them to mean, rather than the commonly accepted definitions.

There's enough bad in what Trump says (not as much in what he manages to do, and so far at least his foreign policy is... not great, but better than the dumpster fire that other candidate oversaw).