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In reply to the discussion: Something I'm still coming to grips with [View all]CaptainTruth
(6,582 posts)32. I started calling the GOP a fascist party years ago, under Trump.
If you look at the famous Early Warning Signs of Fascism list, Trump, & the GOP under Trump, either checked off every item on the list or tried their hardest to check off every item on the list.
The GOP has embraced fascism. I'm convinced that's why they bring up socialism so often when they criticize Democrats, it's to distract from their own fascism. It's a technique they use all the time.
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Also, I just bought the book "American Fascism - How the GOP is Subverting Democracy." I've just leafed through it, but it looks good.
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This isn't new. I've thought it to be around 20-25 percent since the nineties, at least.
we can do it
Dec 2021
#1
I'm so sorry. How awful. Especially because it didn't have to happen. My heart hurts for you.
Scrivener7
Dec 2021
#2
Instinctive biochemical reactions are hardwired by evolution and are not intelligence
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2021
#14
Would it be too harsh for them to frame or re-brand the repug party as the Fascist party and
Hotler
Dec 2021
#27
USA has been exposed. Worst thing is that 30-40 percent represents many people otherwise
Pepsidog
Dec 2021
#38
always has been that way, but now they have facebook and fox to amplify their stupidity and insanity
housecat
Dec 2021
#39