Trump is the neo-fascist Žižek’s been warning us about

ICYMI, Slavoj Žižek has been going on for several years now about an emerging politics embodied in figures like Silvio Berlusconi, Rob Ford – and today, I would argue, Donald Trump. Probably the best way to describe this trend would be to call it neo-fascism – it does not map perfectly onto typical conceptions of twentieth century fascism, but it’s anim…