Is Today's Trumpist GOP Fascist?

[Oerets]

Others must be paying attention, noticing the telegraphing of the true nature, intentions of the new GOP. Or they are now brave embolden since Trump shown to them the weak areas to exploit.

With the actions of late, Graham's bill, DeSantis DK move, Trump and pardons ect....

The constant drip drip drip of just how close we came on the 6th to a takeover.

It is very apparent and alarming as a history buff. They are going to indeed takeover at some point. Not going to be stopped by peaceful means. Especially if the ring leaders never face judgment and punishment.

The rest of the country will be lulled into thinking it will never happen or even thinking it will not be as bad. Or put plain and simple do not care. Take for granted things will never change.

Sorry we are in for some trouble times ahead.

[Chicks]

Hungary is no longer a full democracy, says European Parliament
MEPs back resolution stating country led by Viktor Orbán has become ‘hybrid regime of electoral autocracy’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ean-parliament

…yet MAGAMorons and today’s “conservatives” are touting this autocratic regime as a role model for the US. Dumb bastards.

[finnbow]

Heil to their Trumpenfuehrer

[finnbow]

(CNN) - The outgoing Republican speaker of the Arizona House says Trump-backed GOP candidates might send the country "back into the dark ages" if they win key midterm races and help enact laws to make it easier to overturn elections -- which he said was tantamount to "fascism."

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/18/polit...ntv/index.html

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Heil to their Trumpenfuehrer

Ready to follow any order, or drink the "special" kool-aide.

[Mark B]

Originally Posted by finnbow

(CNN) - The outgoing Republican speaker of the Arizona House says Trump-backed GOP candidates might send the country "back into the dark ages" if they win key midterm races and help enact laws to make it easier to overturn elections -- which he said was tantamount to "fascism."

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/18/polit...ntv/index.html

In his testimony before the JAN 6th Committee Rusty Bowers said he would vote for Trump again.

More recently he was quoted by the Arizona Mirror:

"After winning praise from liberals for telling Congress how former President Donald Trump tried to intimidate him into illegally overturning the 2020 election in Arizona, House Speaker Rusty Bowers earned their derision for saying that he’d still vote for Trump in 2024.

But now Bowers is backing down from that stance, telling the Deseret News in a new interview that isn’t sure what he would do if faced with Trump as the GOP nominee in 2024.

“I don’t want the choice of having to look at (Trump) again. And if it comes, I’ll be hard pressed,” he told the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-owned news outlet. “I don’t know what I’ll do. But I’m not inclined to support him.”

[Pio1980]

Watch, Rise of the Nazis, and any other doc on them and get back to us on whether the Trumplicans are nro-Nazi fascists

[finnbow]

Robert O. Paxton, probably the best-known scholar of fascism and the author of “The Anatomy of Fascism” (2004) has come around to calling Trumpism “fascism” after the January 6 attack.

Trump's incitement of the invasion of the Capitol on January 6, 2020 removes my objection to the fascist label. His open encouragement of civic violence to overturn an election crosses a red line. The label now seems not just acceptable but necessary. It is made even more plausible by comparison with a milestone on Europe's road to fascism—an openly fascist demonstration in Paris during the night of February 6, 1934.

On that evening thousands of French veterans of World War I, bitter at rumors of corruption in a parliament already discredited by its inefficacy against the Great Depression, attempted to invade the French parliament chamber, just as the deputies were voting yet another shaky government into power. The veterans had been summoned by right-wing organizations. They made no secret of their wish to replace what they saw as a weak parliamentary government with a fascist dictatorship on the model of Hitler or Mussolini.

Unlike the demonstrators in Washington on January 6, the French demonstrators of February 6, 1934 did not succeed in penetrating the parliament building. But the outcome was much graver. The French government, fearing that the demonstrators, crossing the bridge leading from the Place de la Concorde, were going to break in to the Chamber, authorized the police to shoot. Fifteen demonstrators and one policeman were killed. The French Third Republic had blood on its hands. The ensuing bitter division helps explain why the French prepared only haltingly before 1940 for Hitler's attack, and why the French defeat of June led to the replacement of the Third Republic with the authoritarian Vichy regime.

https://www.newsweek.com/robert-paxt...ascist-1560652

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Ready to follow any order, or drink the "special" kool-aide.

The rally presented a darkening message of confrontation, hate, world war, civil war and political violence. Trump painted a delusional dystopia and apocalyptic hour of confrontation that is at hand because he was rejected and defeated by the American people.

https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/...oungstown-ohio

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The rally presented a darkening message of confrontation, hate, world war, civil war and political violence. Trump painted a delusional dystopia and apocalyptic hour of confrontation that is at hand because he was rejected and defeated by the American people.

https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/...oungstown-ohio

tRump's got nothing to lose by driving the cult to violence (again). He won't be out in the streets (or wherever), they will. He won't have to answer for it if any of them are harmed (again). He won't be behind bars with those arrested and prosecuted (again). If things get to hot for him he will simply flee the country. He's too big of a coward to go out like Hitler.