To me the Trump Italy tie has been Berlusconi, the media magnate and BS artist who prefigured Trump and the Trump era quite accurately. The assumption of a vapid center stage where non-nutritious froth takes the place of useful social ideas, and the public eats it up. Berlusconi got re-elected. DANGER WILL ROBINSON.

Independent of the 'good'ness or 'bad'ness of the politics, Trump does not have enough principles to be a Fascist.