"Mark Milley, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
said that his onetime boss is “fascist to the core,” according to Bob Woodward’s new book,
War. Meanwhile, Kelly, Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff,
told the
New York Times that Trump meets the definition of a fascist. “Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It’s a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy,” he said.
“Certainly the former president is in the far-right area, he’s certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators—he has said that. So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure,” he added. Kelly also said that Trump claimed that he had the authority to use the military to go after U.S. citizens and once told him that “Hitler did some good things."
Now he has no one around him to question his moves. He learned to surround himself with sycophants whose main attribute is absolute loyalty. For example Hegseth said that he would absolutely shoot protesters if ordered by Trump, which Esper refused to do. The fascism is obvious to everyone not in the cult.