Fintan O’Toole explains Trump’s fascism tryouts:

To grasp what is going on in the world right now, we need to reflect on two things. One is that we are in a phase of trial runs. The other is that what is being trialled is fascism – a word that should be used carefully but not shirked when it is so clearly on the horizon.

Fascism doesn’t have to wear 1930s clothes to be fascism. It’s not a historical category, it’s a political one; it wasn’t killed, it was injured.

Trump is ignorant of almost everything but he does grok test marketing.

He created himself in the gossip pages of the New York tabloids, where celebrity is manufactured by planting