Trump’s belligerent rhetoric merges a vocabulary of dehumanization with a language of racial cleansing and repeated threats of violence. He claims that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” states that “the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff deserves to be executed, and to discourage shoplifters urges police officers to shoot them. Running an openly authoritarian political campaign, Trump unapologetically states, with a smirk on his face, that he wants to be a dictator. For the far-right and MAGA politicians, fascist politics is now displayed and enacted as a badge of honor.

Source: The politics of emergency time and the emerging threat of fascism – Pearls and Irritations