Democracy Dies in Darkness
Opinion

There’s a better term for Trump than ‘fascist’

He’s a demagogue.

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People demonstrate outside Madison Square Garden as Donald Trump holds a rally at the arena in New York on Sunday. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images)
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Eli Merritt, a research assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, is the author of “Disunion Among Ourselves: The Perilous Politics of the American Revolution.”

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