Understanding Trumpism

I will be visiting Israel next month and I expect to be asked about Donald Trump. This is what I will say.

• He proudly retweets quotes from fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
• According to an ex-wife, he keeps a book of Adolph Hitler's collected speeches by his bed.
• He has pledged to forcibly expel 11 million men, women, and children from the United States.
• He has pledged to change libel laws to make it illegal for the media to run "negative stories" about him.
• He wants to begin trade wars with our biggest trade partners (China and Mexico).
• Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson has said what good is it having nuclear weapons if you are afraid to use them.
• He is supported by white nationalists, like former KKK head David Duke. The neo-Nazi American Freedom Party supports Trump.
• French neo-Nazi Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French National Front party, supports him.
• Trump has taken populist, socialist positions.

This makes Donald Trump, by definition, a National Socialist.

I will be asked why is he popular. Many Americans want a strongman, a Putin or Stalin or Mussolini or Hitler. It doesn't matter to them what he believes or what he will do, only that he will be a forceful authoritarian.

But, I will be asked, "can he be elected?"

At this point, no. I believe most people when staring into the abyss of a totalitarian monster will turn away in horror.

German Reichstag (parliament) burning, Feb. 1933

But, a major terror attack in October, such as a bomb collapsing the Capitol Dome, and my nation will turn to a dictator who will make them feel safe again by deporting millions of families and killing millions more in a global war.