NO HE ISN'T
We went to see Miriam Margolyes on the Fringe yesterday. A wonderful show, the actor pouring her talents into bringing Dickens characters to life, telling hilarious stories of her own life. She's great entertainment, and an unfiltered voice on the world. It's refreshing to hear a prominent Jewish voice speak out against the Israeli government's criminality and genocidal policies.
At the end there was an audience Q&A, and someone asked for her opinion of the Tangerine Tyrant. You probably know the gist of the answer already. She's not a fan, is she? She declared that he, along with the likes of Niggle Fuhrage, was a fascist. And there I felt myself disagreeing with her.
Fascism is an (abhorrent) ideology. And there is always some vague, if ill founded, belief system behind it. There is a form of coherence to the thinking of the fascist. There is no doubt that the likes of the Deform leader, and his cronies, meet the definition. Farage is a fascist, always has been. But Trump? I don't think so.
Certainly he has surrounded himself with a lot of people who are fascists. And clearly the results of his actions (I would hesitate to call them 'policies') can be seen as fascistic. But, as I said above, being a fascist involves a belief in some ideology. However the Mandarin Moron only has one belief - an even more ill-founded one it's true - in himself. This is the man (?) who mused, out loud, that injecting bleach into humans might help against covid. This is the creature (better) that said, to camera, that he was going to lower prices by 1000%.
Trump is not a fascist. Trump is, genuinely, too stupid to be a fascist. Sorry Miriam. Everything else you said was true.
