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I think the issue is that Americans associate fascism with the Axis powers in WW2, but it’s difficult to see Trump mass murdering minorities or invading Europe even though his policies have some elements of fascism. Those elements seem to align with historic American isolationism and populism and thus be more benign than the conditions that led to WW2.

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The administration has openly flirted with military action in South America and Greenland.

It's actively performing military action in South America, not just flirting with it. Flirting would be rhetoric, positioning ships and aircraft. We're using aircraft to kill alleged drug runners, but with no evidence provided that they even were drug runners (not that I think that would be sufficient justification, but it's better than "because I said so").

Every American administration in recent memory has engaged in military action.

He doesn't have plans to seize the entirety of South America. He just wants to depose a dictator and it's not even clear he will actually do it. He's just putting pressure on it to happen.

> it’s difficult to see Trump mass murdering minorities or invading Europe

No, it's actually not.

Although it's really more about the people running Trump. Trump by himself would be totally ineffectual.

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