ABSTRACT
Donald Trump will win the most delegates for the Grand Old Party (GOP) convention, which will make the final decision on who the official party candidate for the 2016 presidential election will be. While it is almost certain that Trump will win a majority of primaries and caucuses and a plurality of delegates, Texas Senator Ted Cruz will secure enough delegates to keep Trump from a majority. This will mean that no candidate will get the nomination in the first vote, after which the delegates are no longer bound to "their" candidate. While Trump lacks the ideological coherence and organizational structure of fascism, his unabashed nativism and explicit intimidation of critics and support for violence are unprecedented in recent US history. His views are more similar to some small fundamentalist Protestant groups in Europe, like the Politically Reformed Party (SGP) in the Netherlands or factions of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in Northern Ireland.
