Donald Trump is often criticized for being a fascist, but this label is not only inaccurate, it also misrepresents the uniqueness of Trump’s political phenomenon.

Fascism emerged in the 1920s as an international, revolutionary and anti-liberal political movement that aimed to overthrow both liberal democracy and communism, while preserving the capitalist economic system.

As noted by the Hungarian historian and philosopher Gyorgy Lukacs in the postscript to his 1953 book “The Destruction of Reason” it was impossible for fascist ideology to establish itself as a dominant force in Europe or America after World War II.

This does not mean that liberal