It's Time to Stop Calling Donald Trump a Fascist

Say what you will about MAGA, its diversity is impressive.

Election deniers, smarmy billionaires, hot-for-Armageddon Christian nationalists, waterborne Nazis, a shrinking handful of sadly deluded conservatives, Laura Loomer, Kid Rock, Roseanne Barr, Rudy Giuliani—far from a monolith, MAGA is a rainbow coalition of insurrectionists, cranks, and pin-striped goons.

Recently, however, more and more observers have taken to painting the movement and especially its sundowning 78-year-old leader with a single, saucy epithet: Fascist.