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Originally Posted by Undertoad

He can't even get buy-in from the departments he actually controls as part of the Executive branch. The intelligence community is dead-set against him. Fed agencies are all hoping Congress continues to give them the budget they want instead of the budget he asks for. Trump has not gotten his way on much of that stuff.

Y'all are describing the standard partisanship of our age as Fascism, it's almost like y'all have made the label meaningless over decades of manic hyperbole. You should really save the word for when you actually need it.

Just because he isn't good at it doesn't mean he isn't fascist.

Examples:

Wanting to prosecute anyone that said anything bad about him during the impeachment.

Using the "trusted traveler" system as a club to beat New York with, for the purpose of making them stop investigating his taxes. Also defunding bomb-sniffing dogs at ports of entry in NYC for the same reason.

Interfering in the trials and sentencing of his cronies.

Sending "elite" ICE agents to sanctuary cities, which might almost be normal except for the armored vehicles part.

Using the US government to fund his hotels and other personal businesses.

I can go on, if you like.