02-06-2017, 11:40 AM
(02-05-2017, 02:06 PM)TeacherinExile Wrote:
The impetus for this new thread stems from a recent article in the left-leaning The Guardian, written by a senior correspondent of the Federalist, typically a champion of conservative causes. (How's that for Left, Right?) I generally agree with his assessment, and take exception only with one of his assumptions that I have not seen support for in any poll that I'm aware of.
"Trump Is No Fascist. He Is a Champion for the Forgotten Millions"
He begins by writing--
Amid the ongoing protests against President Trump, calls for “resistance” among Democratic politicians and activists, and the overheated rhetoric casting Trump and his supporters as fascists and xenophobes, an outsider might be forgiven for thinking that America has been taken over by a small faction of rightwing nationalists.
America is deeply divided, but it’s not divided between fascists and Democrats. It’s more accurate to say that America is divided between the elites and everybody else, and Trump’s election was a rejection of the elites...
Read further at this link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/05/trump-not-fascist-champion-for-forgotten-millions
While I'm not saying we're living under a fascist regime--yet--I feel bound to point out that this Guardian article fails to make any argument that Trump is not a fascist. What it does do is describe the degraded conditions and morale of middle America that would cause the "forgotten millions" to fall prey to a populist con man like Donald Trump.