> Some may quibble with the use of fascist to describe him, but he's very clearly authoritarian and anti-democratic. That's pretty strange, seeing as he ran un

> Some may quibble with the use of fascist to describe him, but he's very clearly authoritarian and anti-democratic. That's pretty strange, seeing as he ran under the party that generally strives for lower government control in our lives - the direct opposite of fascism. And he has lessened government control in a variety of ways. One example (albeit one that is probably unpopular on HN) is deregulating telecoms. The claim that Trump is even fascist-aligned is really only defensible if one uses the modern definition of fascist: a person that holds political views one deems offensive or bad.