Robert Paxton says that fascism is
"a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood"
Fits Trump and the modern GOP to a tee. Literally everything from his slogan, to his rhetorical style and political obsessions is about America being in decline and everybody mocking the US.
Also fits Trump. His movement is rhetorically populist, yet are perfect running dogs for the traditional elite, as they cut taxes, deregulate and stack the courts with Federalist society judges who can't wait to turn the US into a perfect corporate dreamscape, which is a nightmare for everybody else.
Gerrymandering, stacking the census, thugs hanging around polling places, trying to destroy the post office just to divert some ballots, open embracement of the Electoral College, voter id laws, and using felony disenfranchisement to target activists.
Internal cleansing, absolutely. Muslims and Mexicans are enemies. And Democrats are considered to be traitors and scum for daring to oppose Trump in anyway. You don't have your supporters wearing these shirts in a healthy rhetorical space.
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The only weak point of this is an external expansion and even than Trump does have an obsession with buying Greenland, for no reason but it would look nice on the map. But that tracks considering that European fascism involved smaller countries, while the US has vast tracks of land, it already barely uses.
Uhm, the US is entering international pariah territory here:
You actually said this a few hours ago:I’m a little confused; I think I’ve only mentioned Obama once in recent memory. What I mean about him with Joe Biden is that he needs to talk about reasons to elect Joe Biden, not Obama’s Vice President, if that makes any sense.
Sorry, lunch break at work over!
And also a few months ago I remember you said that you voted for Trump to spite Obama.
I’m certain you’re confusing me for someone else; I haven’t voted in over a decade.
because the only Deep State , which is not an endearing term at all , is the Old Republic in Turkey , from 1971 , where the carefully nurtured Baathist like Leftist coup was stalled on March the 9th and was replaced by a much milder Right wing intervention on the 12th . Which still managed to wreck the country enough . Santa Süleyman , the Right wing Prime Minister who naturally took his hat and left his office without resistance was better known as Morrison Süleyman at the time , for the period he had previously worked in the American company so named , was attacked in the press , for not climbing on the tank as the current phraselogy has it . So , his Foreign Minister of many goverments told the country that they could not do a single thing ... Because "iyi saatte olsunlar" (a term that might be used as the powers that be) had dug so many tunnels and stuff under the country , as the phrase goes in Turkish . This is where the Deep comes from . What exist in America is average American intel operative who used to do stuff abroad before figuring out he could do the same in the US , too . Continious use of Deep State to describe US stuff is a prelude to involve Turks as closet Jews or even worse as tools of Jews for end-of-the-world ethnic cleansing , Holocaust ll with Anglosaxon efficiency . Thank you all , you people , am quite fine .
I completely agree with the notion that we do need to begin withdrawing from the Middle East. However, pulling out of places like northern Syria to leave beleaguered ethnic groups to be genocided so Russia can expand its influence is not the way to go about it.
Poison gassing the opposition under cover of Russian air strikes will do that.
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