I don't agree with Erik Loomis on much, but I agree with him here. Trump himself is not a fascist, though I do think quite a few of the people around him are. He pines for the Gilded Age. He fetishizes William McKinley for some absurd reason. McKinley was the capstone of the long string of anonymous Ohioans to pass through the Oval Office (OK, Harding, but still).
And here why this is an important distinction: the Gilded Age ended. It ended with two decades of reform that began the process of turning America into a more just place. That process is not linear, these four years will suck.
But they will end, just like the Gilded Age did.
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