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Donald Trump and Trumpism is fascism at its core.....
What do you think about this point of view?
gristy
(10,667 posts)- Thom Hartman
I think he makes some very good points. Thanks for posting!
CrispyQ
(36,413 posts)We being our side & the media.
BernieBabies
(78 posts)Reagan weakened the middle class.
Trumpism is destroying society.
Next comes fascism.
Good perspective on this shit-show.
crickets
(25,950 posts)Klaralven
(7,510 posts)Calling Biden and Biden supporters socialists has no effect on his supporters.
These labels are too shopworn to be effective. Nazi might have more impact, but fascism is less well understood and has been actively supported. The US was allied with Generalissimo Franco's Spain. Britain and France were OK with Mussolini until he went to war with Ethiopia. But their objection was more about Italy starting to compete with them for colonies in Africa than about his political philosophy. And recently, we've allied ourselves with numerous South American governments which were arguably fascist, e.g. Pinochet's Chile.
ffr
(22,665 posts)They use the word without knowing the meaning, a constant problem with republicans, they don't know the definitions of the words they use.
In order for a word to have meaning, you'll also have to explain the definition of fascism and then apply it to what tRump and the GOP are doing. Just using the F word will otherwise fall into he-said she-said territory and you'll get nowhere. And you'll only break through to a fascist if they are open-minded enough to listen. They are not open-minded, otherwise they wouldn't be fascists.
No, the only way to attack fascism is to minimalize it, vote it out of power. Focus your effort on that.
Robert O. Paxton: Hatred of the left in all its guises, from the most tepid to the most outré, is thus not incidental to fascism; it is at its core. The fascist route to power has always been passed through cooperation with conservative elites; without the acquiescence or even active assent of the traditional elites [fascists] could never have attained power.
Fascist regimes had to produce an impression of driving momentumpermanent revolution. They could not survive without that headlong, inebriating rush forward. [This] deliberate arousal of expectations of dynamism, excitement, momentum, and risk was inherent to fascisms appeal.
Fascism does not require a spectacular 'march' on some capital to take root; seemingly anodyne decisions to tolerate lawless treatment of national 'enemies' is enough.
The truth was whatever permitted the new fascist man (and woman) to dominate others. . . . It was the unquestioning zeal of the faithful that counted, more than his or her reasoned assent.
Kid Berwyn
(14,789 posts)Biden would set them all straight, especially the Roger Stone cheerleaders who call for martial law if/when Drumpf loses.
Speaking up NOW will save Joe Biden and the 600 lawyers a lot of work later.