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In the closing days of the 2024 Election, Donald Trump's fascist inclinations could do him in.
A new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Friday found that 49% of registered voters view Trump as a fascist, which the pollsters described to respondents as "a political extremist who seeks to act as a dictator, disregards individual rights and threatens or uses force against their opponents.”
That poll was mostly conducted before The New York Times published a story in which retired Gen. John Kelly, Trump's longest-serving White House chief of staff, went on the record explicitly calling Trump a fascist who admired Adolf Hitler.
Kelly told The New York Times that Trump “prefers the dictator approach to government,” adding that when he was president, Trump believed he had the “ability to do anything he wanted, anytime he wanted.”
And Kelly said he worried that in a second term—in which Trump would likely be surrounded by yes-men—Trump would make good on his promise to use the military against American citizens whom Trump views as disloyal.
“I think this issue of using the military on—to go after—American citizens is one of those things I think is a very, very bad thing—even to say it for political purposes to get elected—I think it’s a very, very bad thing, let alone actually doing it,” Kelly told The New York Times.
