The events of 1/6/2020, and the proliferation of unfounded 2020 election fraud claims, would suggest otherwise. Not to mention his plans to "be a dictator for a day" and persecute his political opponents if elected this fall.

The man and those in his orbit have a hard-on for Putin/Xi/Kim-style autocracy.

> Trump was ... not a March on Rome figure.

Naah, he was only the March on the Capitol figure; so much better.

(FWIW, they had/have a Capitol in Rome too. That's what the American one is named for.)