06-08-2016, 05:57 PM
(06-08-2016, 05:04 PM)radind Wrote:(06-08-2016, 04:40 PM)taramarie Wrote:(06-08-2016, 04:31 PM)Odin Wrote:(06-08-2016, 08:04 AM)Anthony Wrote: Trump is clearly a national liberal. He supports policies that will raise the wages and cut the taxes of the working poor - and in 21st Century (but not 20th Century) terms he is a cultural conservative: He believes in a majoritarian, Anglo-American culture to which everyone should subscribe (I'm waiting for him to openly support an "English only" bill. I don't believe that I will have to wait very long).
Trump is a Fascist who thinks Blacks and Latinos are not "real" Americans'.
Lets hear out what makes him fascist so it is clear. There seems to be many variations on what fascism really is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#Definitions
In my opinion labels such as fascist are much too freely used. The effect is to shut down communication.
Quote:http://www.theatlantic.com/international...st/424449/
I Know Fascists; Donald Trump Is No Fascist
… "Trump will never master the techniques laid out in 1931 by the then-fascist journalist Curzio Malaparte in his Coup D’etat: The Technique of Revolution, which detailed the clear requirements of the fascist manifesto: Seize and hold state power with a sudden attack, coordinated with cunning and force. There is no fascism without this rational, violent plan to obliterate democracy. From Hitler’s Mein Kampf to Mussolini’s speeches on the Palazzo Venezia balcony, fascists told the crowd openly what their goals were and kept a nefarious, disciplined pace to realize them. Mussolini boasted about reducing Italy’s Parliament “to a fascist barrack,” “stopping any antifascist brain from thinking,” and “creating a new Roman Empire.””…
IMO what makes him explicitly a Fascist rather than just a garden-variety RW Authoritarian is the "Make America Great Again" rhetoric, creating an atmosphere of scapegoating against every demographic group real and imagined seen as "bringing down America". Trump generally doesn't say such things in public, but a lot of his vocal supporters want violent suppression of Blacks, Latinos, "Femi-Nazis", "Social Justice Warriors", "Cultural Marxists" and other perceived enemies of "White Christian Culture".