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It seems pretty text book to me.
Well none of those, so why don’t you explain which ones since they are so obvious to you.
And Trump’s fetish for deregulation works against the second one.
Trump has advocated for nationalist, North Korean style military parades and the use of the military against protesters etc. And there this myth of him being anti-interventionist but America was very active in Syria during his term.
Nationalism has a lot of gradations, and while it can be a subset of fascism it isn't inherently fascistic. Fukuyama said: "But it is not clear that nationalism represents an irreconcilable contradiction in the heart of liberalism. In the first place, nationalism is not one single phenomenon but several, ranging from mild cultural nostalgia to the highly organized and elaborately articulated doctrine of National Socialism."
And using the military against mobs of people that are ransacking cities is not under any construction 'fascism' - property rights are after all pretty important in the Western Anglo-Saxon tradition and using force to protect property rights is not 'fascism'.
Not sure what you mean by America being active militarily in Syria, either - are you referring to Trump ordering the bombing of ISIS targets? By that logic when Obama ordered the Navy Seals to kill bin Laden the US was engaged in a fascistic military adventure in Pakistan which... would probably make you the only person in the world to think that.
Trump is a lot of things. A fascist as that word is understood by historians is not one of them.
Anyway; it has reached the point where I no longer believe people who claim Trump said something negative. Back in the 2010s I spent enough time reading up primary sources to reveal it was a misquote. Possibly a malicious misinterpretation, possibly the man just makes people so emotional that they can't listen to him for a full minute and try to interpret with a neutral lens.
He appears to be close to a saint given how much time his opponents have to spend making up stuff about him to dislike. Realistically there are a lot of real problems that people should focus on; like bad policies.
As far as I'm aware Trump was running on deporting illegal immigrants. He's not planning on gassing anyone. Except maybe with all the hot air he blows, heh.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1115931494299...
He represents the faction of US politics that wants to enforce a secure border and his rhetoric is ugly. That is pretty normal for anti-migration rhetoric, by the way. It makes him nasty, maybe even cruel, but not a fascist.
This is why it is a waste of time trying to follow up NBC News articles. They're distracting from a real issue (migration, border security, what have you) with ... I don't even know how to characterise it. Abuse to try and shut people up, perhaps. Playing silly gotcha games, maybe. That quote isn't Trump trying to revive Nazi policies, as we all might have expected from the outset.
What did Trump mean by that?
You mentioned Russia, the wall, NBC and typed a lot but didn't really answer the question.
Fair enough, let me be direct: I think the question is stupid and I'm not going to answer it. Trump has spent 4 years in office and run multiple election campaigns that have featured potentially hundreds of hours of coverage of Trump, his policies and opportunities to evaluate them.
With that in the background, old mate wants to discuss a tweet and 40 second clip, probably bought into the conversation by institutions that specialises in lying about what Trump says and taking clips out of context given that NBC News is involved.
And like I said, back in the 2010s fair enough it is a topic to discuss because who knows? Maybe he is Hitler. But it is now 2024, there isn't anything there and the people bringing it up are looking increasingly isolated and unhinged by virtue of crying wolf. Trump says mean things about immigrants. Everyone knows. He doesn't represent a return of the Nazi party, even if a lot of people don't like him or think he is a bad candidate.
So you can't answer it.
> probably bought into the conversation by institutions that specialises in lying about what Trump says
Nope, he said it 4 times in 2023 alone and many many times since. In an interview with a right leaning website, in a rally in New Hampshire, and quite literally in the Truth Social post linked above, straight from Trump himself. No pesky journalists or reporters to misquote.
So hopefully we can agree he has said it, not out of context, multiple times.
What did Hitler say?
"All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning"
"Whenever Aryans have mingled their blood with that of an inferior race, the result has been the downfall of the people who were the standard-bearers of a higher culture,"
Going back to Trump's quote, what type of blood do you think he was referring to?
Do you think he meant the immigrants were going to literally inject poison into Americans as some kind of terrorist attack?
Yes, it's distracting from the real issues, but his supporters don't care that he torpedoed the bipartisan border control bill either.
These quotes aren't about his proposals to roll back democracy, and I never claimed they were. Rolling back democracy is more about his actions to gain absolute presidential immunity.
To be clear, I don't think Trump is fascist like Hitler. He is fascist like Putin. He wants autocracy for personal enrichment, not for extermination of undesirables. He uses Hitler's rhetoric because it works, and he admires Hitler for his crowds, not because Hitler would kill the man who married his favorite daughter.