Is Today's Trumpist GOP Fascist?

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

2024 will be the climax. The election will almost certainly end with two people claiming to have won it. The the matter will be settled by violence.

Might not be both claiming a win, rather stolen cheated out of....

[donquixote99]

But you can't be cheated out of a thing you didn't win. Still, being cheated-out-of pisses people off a lot, so that will be the up-front issue.

[finnbow]

Mandatory stop-and-frisk. Deploying the military to fight street crime, break up gangs and deport immigrants. Purging the federal workforce and charging leakers.

Former president Donald Trump has steadily begun outlining his vision for a second-term agenda...:“With you at my side, we will totally obliterate the deep state, we will banish the warmongers from our government, we will drive out the globalists, and we will cast out the communists and Marxists, we will throw off the corrupt political class, we will beat the Democrats, we will rout the fake news media...”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elect...policies-2024/

[finnbow]

Asked if he believed white nationalists should be allowed to serve in the military, Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said in referring to the Biden administration, "They call them that. I call them Americans."

Meanwhile, this fascist prick is blocking military promotions in protest for how the administration is handling abortions in the military.

[finnbow]

This week, radio host and frequent Fox News guest Jesse Kelly wrote on Twitter that America “needs a dictator.” Kelly’s assertion, part of a dialogue that included Covid denialism and warnings about “monstrous communists,” was met with an equally chilling declaration that he quickly agreed with: “Weimar problems eventually lead to Weimar solutions.”...

Because while it would be bad enough if Kelly was an isolated incident, aspirational fascism, as The Nation’s Jeet Heer called it on Twitter, has gained a foothold among the American right. Jeer was specifically referring to an entirely different tweet, one from the head of the right-wing outlet The American Reformer, proclaiming that “America is going to need a Protestant Franco.” (It would take another whole essay to discuss the ways that dictator Francisco Franco was also a terrible role model.) And the words of white nationalists like Trump dinner guest Nick Fuentes — who agrees with Kelly that “we need a dictatorship” — have overlapped more and more with groups like the New York Young Republicans, whose president recently declared “We want total war.”

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-...elly-rcna85799

[RickeyM]

I fully expect these groups would accept outside (foreign) help in their war against the rest of us. Anything to help them save their idea of our democracy.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

I fully expect these groups would accept outside (foreign) help in their war against the rest of us. Anything to help them save their idea of our democracy.

There is absolutely no doubt that Trump would ... because he already did. Not only did he accept Russian help, he specifically requested it.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by finnbow

There is absolutely no doubt that Trump would ... because he already did. Not only did he accept Russian help, he specifically requested it.

I'm talking boots on the ground help. At the very least in support roles. Framed as supporting the fight for democracy the MAGA cult will be A-OK with it.

[donquixote99]

Yes, there were possible scenarios in the 2020 election 'resolution' phase where I considered Russian troops flying in to DC as a thing that could happen....

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Yes, there were possible scenarios in the 2020 election 'resolution' phase where I considered Russian troops flying in to DC as a thing that could happen....

Trump would have welcomed them with open arms.