That true about our fascist creeping. As a matter of fact, I think it was infecting us from colonial times onward. It just wasn't prevalent outside official racism toward Native Americans Africans, later Chinese immigrants, Irish Immigrants, Jewish Immigrants, Mexicans, etc. It has gradually via state and federal policies and practices seeped deeper and deeper into being government policy on a wider scale. Indeed, it was why the Nazis were making serious inroads in America until certain aspects of the movement alarmed even J. Edgar Hoover. Forcing him to make moves to shut them down. So, NO, we can't lump the contemporary rise in fascism solely on Trump. I don't even think Trump cared one way or another until he realized, or had it pointed out to him (most likely) as a useful base for political ambitions. A simmering pot of discontent, bigotry, and what Hillary correctly labeled, a legion of the miserable. Ready and able to support a rerun to Jim Crow America. Trump didn't create this, but he did exploit its preexistence.