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Clearly you're ignoring or ignorant that the very core of fascism is not a coherent ideology, but power.
A fascist politician will contradict his stated beliefs without hesitation if he believes it to be beneficial to his chances of retaining and/or increasing his power.
It's not just a Donald Trump thing and it's not even the exception: pursuit of power and attempts to not lose it is the thing itself.
The persecution of the Others, the flouting of law and simultaneously systematic and chaotic behavior while proclaiming to be the valiant champion of law and order are not the ideology or the point, it's just means to an end and the end is power.
Even the dupes who are tricked into ACTUALLY believing the lies either feel powerless, desire to be powerful, or both. It's like the regular "poor people considering themselves temporarily embarrassed billionaires" symptom of "normal" conservativism taken to 11 and broadened to include race, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, gender, and cult membership.