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George Pyle: Trump and Putin two birds of a fascist feather

“The mob always will shout for ‘the strong man,’ the ‘great leader.’ For the mob hates the society from which it is excluded, as well as Parliament where it is not represented.”

In one of those moments when some Republican office-holders dared to see just how dreadful a human being Donald Trump is — before Stewart and many others crawled back to his side in order to win a tax cut and a few “originalist” judges — the 2nd District Utah congressman expressed a fair level of distaste for the then front-runner for the GOP nomination.