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Trump is not an ideological conservative. Never has been, never will be. He was a Democrat for much of his life. He was never really a liberal Democrat, though. He's almost completely devoid of any real ideology. He aspires for authoritarian control, but lacks the intellect, discipline and organization needed to truly achieve it. He seems to favor people who flatter him and strike him as tough, regardless of their ideology. Hence, he liked liberal Democrat Omarosa because she said nice things about him and was vicious.How so?
No such thing. The extreme left end of the spectrum is fascism and authoritarianism and the extreme right end of the spectrum is anarchy. There is no such thing as anarchistic authoritarianism lol. Now, there are forms of fascism/authoritarianism that are based on right wing social and moral tenets. So perhaps you could call that right wing collectivism. But in terms of strictly government structure and philosophy there is no right wing authoritarianism. Even if you are talking about a theocracy. The social and moral tenets may be right wing/conservative but the actual structure of the government is still left wing due to it's collectivist premise.
The thing that made Hitler's government a facist and authoritarian one wasn't the Nationalist portion of his platform...it was his Socialism portion. You can be a non-authoritarian Nationalist...but you can't be a non-authoritarian Socialist.
But at a certain point this can turn into a semantics debate. The important point to take away is that your average conservative trump/republican voter is not going to be voting and supporting a collectivist ideology that says individual rights and liberties are provided by and subject to the "state". There is no part of the conservative ideology that is going to support censoring free speech, limiting gun rights, censoring the free press, stopping the right to free assembly, high taxes and regulations, ect. The minute they do they begin to be non-conservatives.
Completely disagree. The extreme left end is communism, not fascism. Granted, when you go so far right or so far left, you basically become a mirror image of your ostensible enemy. It also basically becomes about authoritarian control at some point. For instance, North Korea started off communist and then became more fascist. And China instituted capitalist reforms to the communist system in order to save themselves from economic collapse, but still maintained authoritarian control.