Interestingly, Gianni Riotta, who  was actually targeted by 70's Italian neo-fascists for assassination and who's parents actually lived under Mussolini, contradicts Kagan's assessment in his article "I Know Fascists; Donald Trump Is No Fascist" (The Atlantic, Jan. 16 2016). If you know anything about European history between the world wars, you know that his assessment reflects reality. Robert Kagan, on the other hand, is a neo-con historian, and he can arrive at his determination that Trump is a fascist only by arranging facts to make a mole hill appear to be a mountain.

If Democrats and their allies keep using the "fascist" label to describe Trump and his supporters, they may just succeed in getting him elected.