Trumpianism Isn’t Fascism - It’s Something Far Worse

Trumpianism defies tradition, weaponises chaos, and turns truth into spectacle. Can democracy withstand it?

In the lead-up to the U.S. election, the word fascism was used regularly and often to describe the now President-Elect Donald Trump - I did that myself quite a few times.

Is there a good reason for it? Absolutely.

Was it untrue? Nope.

Was it 100% correct? There’s where I think we’ve all gone wrong.

While Trump has been playing from the fascism playbook like…