Op-Ed: Is Donald Trump a fascist?
At a campaign rally March 5 in Orlando, Fla., Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump asks members of the audience to pledge to vote for him.
It’s a growing list, the people who’ve called Donald Trump another Hitler, from Anne Frank’s stepsister to comedian Louis C.K. Now, Robert O. Paxton, a Columbia professor emeritus who wrote the book on fascism, assesses whether they’re right – or if Trump is just playing one on television.
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