It’s easy to throw words like “fascism” around without really thinking about their definitions . . . so I looked the word up, to reexamine it. In my opinion, the “shoe fits,” as the saying goes, whether you call it “American fascism,” or simply “Trumpism.” Just look at the details of the Google-provided definition above:

• Authoritarian? Check.
• Nationalistic? “Make America Great Again!” “America First!”
• Right-wing? Very much so.
• Government? Firm control of two of three branches, at the moment.
• Social organization? They’re working on that, in the usual “us and them” form.
• Extreme? Almost comically so.
• Intolerant? Vividly so.

What’s more, all of this is apparent after Donald Trump has been in office for only a week.