U.S. could be headed toward 1-party system under Trump: Yale professor

Jason Stanley says incoming president fits the label of 'fascist'

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's success is "predicated on the failures of the status quo," Yale professor Jason Stanley said. © Reuters

MASAHIRO OKOSHI, Nikkei Washington bureau chief

WASHINGTON -- Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump is a "personalist dictator" who redirected the anger of people upset at the status quo against liberals in order to return to power, said Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale University.

Trump is backed by a "very organized far right" that has experience in "transforming states into one-party states," and the U.S. as a whole faces a similar risk under his administration, Stanley told Nikkei in an interview.

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