See if this sounds familiar: a leader who tests constitutional limits, uses emergency powers at his whim, undermines democratic institutions, politicizes government agencies, uses disinformation to discredit legitimate news sources, targets political enemies, threatens businesses and universities, and co-opts law enforcement agencies and the military to obtain even more power and control.

These are the general observations of Christopher Browning, professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina, an expert in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. And while notes that our current leader shares many of the character traits as some of the most prominent fascists of the past, he insists that President Donald Trump is not Hitler and Trumpism is not national socialism.

He concludes:

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