//He does remind me of Hitler in many ways, but did Adolf wear a hair-piece?//

Q: What did Hitler say when his wig fell off?
A: Mein Herr!

Full Definition of fascism

A political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.

As most of that does not apply to Trump, Sam Ben-Meir means by "a new type of Fascist" any one right of center.

Very good Toni Lavis :)

Trumpy and Adolf would be kindred spirits in a different world then.
Adolf reborn?
Shudder....!

Suze,

Just like Bernie Sanders and Josef Stalin?

//Just like Bernie Sanders and Josef Stalin?//

Sanders doesn't wear a wig.

Neither did Hitler, actually. That was just a joke because we were talking about Hitler and wigs.

I don't know if Stalin did or not.

Much of the hatred of Trump can be put down to liberal snobbery.

Yes, he's gross, but he's the right-wing poster boy for the rising tide of anti-establishment sentiment that is sweeping the West. His counterparts on the Left are Jeremy Corybyn in the UK, Syriza in Greece (which, unfortunately, proved a dud), Podemas in Spain, Bernie Sanders in the US and the zilch-talked about Icelandic population's subversive refusal to pick up the tab for the excess greed of its IMF-compromised banksters and former corrupt politicians (some of whom are now in jail).

Finally, the people are seriously revolting against 30 years of neo-liberal globalisation, which is really code for the privatisation and deregulation of everything that once belonged to the public domain and was, in theory at least, a protection of the common people against the petty greed, ambitions and power struggles of the rich and powerful.

People are tired of continuing to prop up a discredited neoliberal status quo that promises more 'free' trade deals that move jobs offshore and close down Western manufacturing; floods ancient Western cultures with mass immigration from exotic cultures with whom they have little in common; destroys otherwise functioning countries and societies with endless war, destabilisation, bombings and war crimes (which create the aforementioned mass migrations); and continues to maintain rigged, unstable global financial markets that are destroying the wealth and retirement plans of ordinary people.

Hillary Clinton is the embodiment of this corrupt and discredited status quo. But, hey, she walks and talks the liberal agenda, so people will vote for her either through inertia or just to stop Trump.

The US people now have the unhappy choice between two Caligulas. Either way, the rest of the world have no choice but to lump it