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Trump is basically Silvio Berlusconi. In common:

- a property guy who got into TV

- realised how low brow most people are and profited from it

- genuinely disliked the liberal intelligentsia and made it his selling point

- said zany things on purpose to attract attention

- made politics entirely about himself

- ran a daft-but-consequence-free foreign policy

- adored controversy and needed a rotating cast of opponents

Neither of them would have remotely enjoyed being a genuine authoritarian who can lock people up for dissent. Too boring!

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From a literal sense you are correct that Trump is more like George Steinbrenner than Walter O'Malley. The problem is that liberals have redefined fascist into meaning "a politician that does something I don't like". Liberals proved in 2020 that they have no problems with following orders from politicians they do like, but it was obvious even before then if you were paying attention.

Liberals are like women in that if you have any hope of ever understanding them, you should pay attention to their actions, not their words.

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