Last year President Joe Biden accused Donald Trump of leading an “extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy.” Vice President Kamala Harris put a finer point on it last month. Donald Trump, she said, was a fascist.
It’s commonplace, of course, for Democrats to call Republicans fascists; they’ve been doing so since at least the 1960s.
Paul D. Miller is a contributing writer for The Dispatch and professor of the practice of international affairs at Georgetown University. He previously served on the national security council staff under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. His most recent book is "Choosing Defeat: The Twenty-Year Saga of How America Lost Afghanistan."
