Trump and Fascism

Read this article by Rick Perlstein on Donald Trump.  One quote:

It’s not that his supporters don’t know he’s a con man; they revel in it. It’s what makes Donald a “winner.” Lying is an initiation into the conservative elite.  In these respects, as in so many others, conservatism resembles the “multi-level marketing,” or pyramid schemes, that so many Republicans buy into. Closing the sale is mainly a question of riding out the lie: showing you have the skill and the stones to just brazen it out, and the savvy to ratchet up the stakes higher and higher. 

Which isn’t fascism. It’s more like professional wrestling––with which, as we know, Trump has a long and storied history.

Or maybe it’s both.