06-08-2016, 06:29 PM
Donald Trump is a nasty person and a horrible right-wing politician, but that is not enough to make him a fascist. he has yet to show contempt for the elected legislature; he does not promise a grand new order. Will he offend liberal sensibilities if elected? Sure -- and I think as badly as Maine Governor Paul LePage.
He has yet to establish paramilitary militias whose blind obedience will allow them to do any act of violence.
He has yet to establish paramilitary militias whose blind obedience will allow them to do any act of violence.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.