Because they are told he is, by much of our media, and most Democrat leaders.
Is this claim true? Patently not. Fascism is about de facto government control of all resources and people, and Trump is doing what he can to REDUCE the amount of government control, and to shrink the overall size of government.
In contrast, the Democrats have adopted across the board nearly fully fascist policies. They want controls on free speech, they want government control of healthcare, they want to confiscate our guns (they are open about this when they are being honest, which is rare), and it is obvious a high percentage of them would gladly have accepted some sort of Mugabe or Chavez arrangement for Obama or Hillary. I think that was the intent, and Hillary just sucked so much as a candidate they couldn’t pull it off. THIS is why senior Democrats are still in shock. They had a plan to put in fascism and call it an Open Society, or some similar fig leaf, and it was a good plan, and they STILL failed.
But returning to the point I wanted to make, is it true that the false claim that Trump is a fascist is damaging to our country? Obviously. It makes discussion impossible, and violence likely.
Are your friends the ones who tell you the truth, or those who lie to you? The former, obviously.
Ergo, the media, in stoking unnecessary tension and hostility on the basis of patent lies, is playing the role of the Enemy of the People, if we define the people as average Americans who just want to work, worship and raise families as they see fit. They are driving people crazy, and doing so for nakedly political reasons.
This whole thing is awful. Anti-American. It is contrary to every shred of moral decency which has made this country work thus far.
The French Revolutionaries at least had real grievances. They had a King capable of a great deal of arbitrary power. The Russians had the Tsar.
Here, here, lunatics want to overturn and overthrow the most prosperous, most just, most fair political order ever created, on the basis ENTIRELY of manufactured and ludicrous grievances.
I don’t get it. How do people at the University of Chicago and Berkeley, and Harvard and Yale, and Princeton and all the others fall for this bullshit? How do they not recognize IMMEDIATELY how stupid is? More: how do they embrace and further it enthusiastically?
This is one of the least necessary madnesses in the history of humanity, and it is being fomented nearly entirely by a small cadre of corrupt minds, and propagated most effectively through the media. Trump has described the situation accurately.