David Gushee: Donald Trump began his run for president in 2015 with a populist strategy that worked for him to gain the office. By the time of Jan. 6, 2021, he and the worst sorts around him had gradually moved up (down) the ladder to have embraced visible fascist tendencies according to agreed scholarly definitions of that term.

Is ‘fascism’ the right name for the Trumpist hard right in America?