Michael Brooks was not your friend. He was a guy on the tv. He responded to the market demands of affluent democrats who paid his bills, provided his studio space, connected him to other DNC friendly media apparatchiks and introduced him to academic guests. That's how this works.

That he managed to launder DNC talking points in a way that didn't sound like fingernails on a chalkboard is a testament to his SKILLSET, and that's why he was such a highly valued C O M M O D I T Y—beloved by all the straight up worst and most hateful shitlibs on earth.

Anyway that's exactly why he would be calling Trump a fascist. Because Michael Brooks The Man On The TV was very, very good at his job and because his career was going places. That's how this works. Nobody in that context is an "individual". They're performing a social function.