Distressing scenes last night in Chicago: activists infiltrated a Trump rally, Trump called it off, and fights broke out on the floor. Trump supporters argued that this wasn’t a legitimate protest but a sabotage. Critics, such as Marco Rubio, replied that violent actions are the consequences of violent rhetoric. Trump has had people forcibly ejected from his audiences before. One reporter, ironically from a sympathetic news outlet, claims that his heavies left her with bruises. Are we witnessing the birth pangs of a fascist moment?

Yes and no. "Yes" in the sense that fascists do exist in America and they do seem to be attracted to Trump. "No" in the sense that mislabelling Trump as a black-shirt is both inaccurate and does his opponents few favours.