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struggle4progress

(118,359 posts)
Sat Dec 12, 2015, 04:08 PM Dec 2015

Fascism is knocking on the front door

Brattleboro Reformer
12/11/2015 12:30:11 PM EST
UPDATED: ABOUT 3 HOURS AGO

... a new CNN/ORC poll finds that Trump "runs significantly stronger among less-educated, less-affluent voters, and performs particularly well among voters in the 50 to 64 age range." The poll also found that Trump is a 20-point favorite over his closest challenger in the primaries. This is bad news for the GOP, but .. it's just .. hens coming home to roost for a party that has exploited fear .. since Nixon's southern strategy in the late 1960s.

"Donald Trump is the real deal," William Daniel Johnson, chairman of the openly white supremacist American Freedom Party, told TeleSUR. "This is a unique phenomenon in modern politics. It is a throwback to a previous era." According to its website, the American Freedom Party "represents the interests and issues of European-Americans," and its mission is "Defending our borders, preserving our language and promoting" white, European culture ...

These .. people .. not only believe our current president is a secret Muslim but also that his agenda is to destroy the United States and turn it over to the caliphate ... Obama's success in two elections is a signal to them that this could be the end of days for the United States, that the brown and black people are taking over and usurping the white people from their anointed God-given right to rule ... If we don't face down his brand of triumphalism, we might all find ourselves under the heel .. of a particularly American brand of fascism.


http://www.reformer.com/opinion/ci_29236248/our-opinion-fascism-is-knocking-front-door

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Fascism is knocking on the front door (Original Post) struggle4progress Dec 2015 OP
>> hens coming home to roost for a party that has exploited fear << inanna Dec 2015 #1
"a party that has exploited fear" left-of-center2012 Dec 2015 #2

inanna

(3,547 posts)
1. >> hens coming home to roost for a party that has exploited fear <<
Sat Dec 12, 2015, 04:39 PM
Dec 2015

Yep. That pretty much sums it up, doesn't it?

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