Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright, in a book entitled Fascism: A Warning, has declared that Donald Trump is the first “anti-democratic” president.15 Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley in How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, lumps Trump in with Hitler, genocidal mass murders in Rwanda, the Confederates, and the government of Myanmar.16 “A leading Holocaust historian just compared the US to Nazi Germany” shrieked a headline on the neoliberal website Vox in October 2018.17 The article referred to an essay in the New York Review of Books by the historian Christopher
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