How to beat fascism

Writer and legal scholar Omer Aziz on Trump's homegrown threat to democracy, fascism's grip on young men, and what needs to happen to break its hold

When the news broke last week that former staffers had called Donald Trump a fascist, it shocked many. But for others, the surprise was that it had taken so long to see his politics for what they were.

To Americans, “fascism” has meant something alien; a defunct idea the Greatest Generation defeated for all time in World War II. Benito Mussolini’s party …