Also the fascism thing is kinda sterile and academic. I get the impulse to be a pedant but can we all agree democratic checks and balance (among other things) eroded significantly under Trump ?
This topic tends towards inanity by virtue of the fact that it treats fascism as something begotten, not made, which is to say only reproducing itself in a like manner. Analyzing past fascist movements is instructive, but ignoring their developments since then is frankly not very dialectical. (This of course excludes the people who use such discussions to show off their latest strawmen for sale.) Consequently the definitions that get bandied about either come to resemble an amorphous blob (if evolutions are contemplated) or are hopelessly out of date.
Dog Mod, as a friendly criticism of your initial claim, President Trump came from the bourgeoisie and his presidency (despite the anxiety about squatter decline from both him and the media) has served that class position in its entirety. From the new Internal Revenue Code, to the gutting of federal regulations / agencies there can be little dispute as to whom he governs on behalf of. (Hell, how many bourgeois have been in the various permutations of his cabinet?) The U.S. is an archipelago of little dictatorships, they're called private businesses in right to work states. That he himself may appear to have dictatorial tendencies is more a reflection of that than it is fascism.
