The generalized nature of Eco’s list is a valid criticism but it should, as I said elsewhere, always be kept in mind that his was an effort to create just that; a general list of attributes fascist movements share. The 25-point platform of the Nazi party is certainly no substitute (and certainly not “objective”). Besides being so specific to its place and time (as Arnold has already noted), it also contains several radical planks that were included merely to draw votes and attention on the way to power and that were entirely ignored once the fascists achieved power. I wrote about fascism’s peculiar relationship with day-to-day doctrine in my own piece here a few days ago (yes, it seems as if I’m advertising it but it’s easier to direct folks to it than to write the same things here).

Fascism hasn’t any economic policy. Its policies in that regard are all over the board, both within a given fascist regime and between regimes. Chile’s fascist regime even adopted the policies advanced by the American rightist “Libertarian” school, pro-capital-c-Capitalists whose notion of economic freedom rarely has any connection to human freedom.

Trump definitely isn’t a fascist. He is, however, protofascist. Not the whole hog but certainly pointing that way.