Is Today's Trumpist GOP Fascist?

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Originally Posted by RickeyM

I never knew that. I just know the power hungry are never satisfied to share that power for very long. Like a game of musical chairs, it gets ugly when there's just one chair left.

Germany had the 'Night of the Long Knives,' Stalin and Mao* had their purges. Fascism always wants enemies to smash, and will find them among its own ranks if necessary.

*I make no distinction between left strongmen and right strongmen when they go that far. The ideology is just 'enabling myth' for these guys. The story they are telling is just a matter of historical happenstance.