Donald Trump may not be an actual fascist. He certainly acts and sounds like one. But labeling him a fascist implies he understands the ideology. I assure you he does not, any more than he understands the U.S. Constitution. He is drawn to the trappings of fascism, especially the cult of personality that props up its leaders. It’s why he cozies up to dictators and longs to join their ranks. This makes him a useful idiot to the actual fascists in this country, of which there are many. He emboldens them. He gives them permission to come out from under their rocks.

Trump is a malignant narcissist, a severely damaged man-child. Everything he says and does is in service of his bloated ego. He does not care about you or me, about this country or its constitution. Only himself. Ironically, this makes the conman an easy mark for the authoritarians he so admires.

In interviews and speeches, Trump sounds like an eighth-grader trying to bullshit his way through an oral report on a book he never read. That is his one true talent: Bullshit. It has been the driving force of his life and career. Some find it entertaining, even admirable. I never have.

He’s a piss-poor excuse for a human being, let alone a president. I knew what he was back in the 80s. I didn’t care; I didn’t have to do business with the schmuck. But when he got to the White House through a fluke of the Electoral College, it became personal. He and his crime family proceeded to use my country as a leveraged asset for their never-ending grift.

Oh and spare me the twisted high holy horseshit about him doing God’s work. If anything, his becoming president makes a pretty good argument that the atheists are right.

To hand the power of the presidency to such a man — a tyrannical, vindictive, hateful, incompetent, rapacious fount of childish impulses — just so you can stick it to the libs or the leftists or whomever you imagine to be the cause of your grievances and discontent is to sell out your country.

Google the Normandy American Cemetery in France. Look at the photos. Or maybe you’ve been fortunate enough to visit that sacred ground. All those Americans gave their lives to stop fascism. Donald Trump calls them suckers. 

Vote for him if you must. That’s your right. But don’t think for a second it’s patriotic.