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This is not a popular point but the real specialists on historic fascism are actually divided on whether Trump is a fascist. Robert Paxton says he is while Roger Griffin, Stanley Payne & Ruth Ben-Ghiat say he is not. Here is Richard Evans in New Statesman https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2021/01/why-trump-isnt-fascist
1000s of PhD theses will be written on this in the years to come
Here are two other voices. Snyder has long argued that he is, most recently in the New York Times https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/magazine/trump-coup.amp.html
But Berman in 2017 argued he is not, though for reasons I outlined last week some of her pts are now redundant (I.e. he has legitimized violence in my view). Either way, there is a debate about concepts & definitions and how we use them with Trump https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/the-big-idea/2017/1/3/14154300/fascist-populist-trump-democracy
