Was George W. Bush More Fascist Than Trump?

Who was the bigger nightmare, Dr. Frankenstein, or the monster he created?

That's the basic question being posed in this post's headline, and one raised in a tweet by Murtaza Hussain, who writes at The Intercept:

I still consider the high-water mark of what felt like “fascism” in the United States the Bush/Cheney years. Extrajudicial disappearances, state…