Is Today's Trumpist GOP Fascist?

[Chicks]

Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy
https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/0...racy-pub-87918

Reich-wing extremists, like Whell, have weakened democracy in this country to a dangerous extent. They must be defeated, lest the country be turned into an authoritarian state by Whell and his despicable fellow travellers.

Of the Republicans in Congress on the day former president Donald Trump took office, half are now gone. Since the Republicans’ Tea Party revolution, a supposedly populist upsurge partially engineered from the top in 2008 to alter the power structure in the party, approximately 75 percent of Republican House and Senate seats have changed hands.5 The Republicans leaving are those who—like former congressmen Jeff Flake, Peter Meijer, and Rob Portman—have been more bipartisan or willing to stand for democratic norms. Those elected after 2008 include Representatives Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn, and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Among those known to have asked Trump for preemptive pardons for their role in the insurrection, nearly all were elected after 2008.6 The extremist wing of the Republican Party is a recent phenomenon whose nationwide reach and depth within states is already extensive. A report by the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (an organization that has for a long time been tracking white nationalism and anti-Semitism) found that 21 percent of Republican state legislators had joined extremist social media groups.7 Trump is an accelerant of this trend, but his absence alone will not undo the damage.

The Republican Party is no longer the party of former president Ronald Reagan, nor is it even the party of long-serving conservatives like Representative Liz Cheney. A paper classifying over 1,000 political parties across 163 countries by ideology and tactics finds that the current Republican Party looks far closer to authoritarian populist parties—like Fidesz–Hungarian Civic Alliance in Hungary and the Justice and Development Party in Turkey—than to mainstream conservative parties such as Germany’s Christian Democratic Union or Canada’s Conservative Party.8

That is because leaders of this new Republican faction are not only further right but are also far less committed to democratic institutions, practices, and norms.9 They are aware that in increasingly safe seats, their main threat is from a primary challenger.10 A base whose majority is White, evangelical, rural men, and which in 2016 gained a larger percentage of formerly swing voters who cared about identity issues but wanted more government economic redistribution, is more easily motivated by identity than by traditional conservative policy issues such as small government or low taxes.11 These politicians have also come of political age seeing that bipartisanship can enable hit ads that hurt their chances in primaries but that violence and voting manipulation will not be punished at the ballot box.12

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Since his indictment last month on charges of withholding classified documents, former president Donald Trump has publicly called special counsel Jack Smith “deranged” and a “psycho” and said he “looks like a crackhead.”

In response, Smith and the federal judge overseeing his pending criminal trial have said … nothing.

Trump’s broadsides on social media against the Justice Department, the FBI, and Smith in particular have not gone unnoticed. The government spent $1.9 million for U.S. Marshals to provide security to Smith and other officials between November 2022 and March, according to officials. Experts and government officials have said individual prosecutors are facing harassment and threats online from members of right-wing extremist groups.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-cannon-smith/

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Trump and his fascist minions have made it abundantly clear that authoritarianism will be on the ballot in 2024.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/u...lans-2025.html

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It is entirely possible that a 2024 third-party candidate could, intentionally or not, tip this nation toward a fascist Presidential autocracy.

- Michael Beschloss, Presidential Historian

But Whell says otherwise. Who to believe?

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Here is an article illustrating how the DeSantis attack on higher education in Florida takes its inspiration from Mussolini and Victor Orban.

https://lucid.substack.com/p/from-fa...ary-and-the-us

This is actually funny. To believe the claptrap in this article, you have to rigorously ignore the fact that US colleges and universities have been SPRINTING to the left for decades.

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

It is entirely possible that a 2024 third-party candidate could, intentionally or not, tip this nation toward a fascist Presidential autocracy.

- Michael Beschloss, Presidential Historian

But Whell says otherwise. Who to believe?

I'm sure this is the type of stuff that keeps you from sleeping well at night, along with the massive threat to this country posed by Moms for Liberty. LOL!

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

I'm sure this is the type of stuff that keeps you from sleeping well at night, along with the massive threat to this country posed by Moms for Liberty. LOL!

I sleep just fine. I am just not particularly fond that one of our political parties now embraces fascism and that people like you are too stupid to realize it.

You are also too dumb to realize that denying Trump is a fascist because you like him reflects more upon you than him. Unlike you, I am not willing to defend the aspirations of a narcissistic, criminal toddler for unchecked power.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by whell

This is actually funny. To believe the claptrap in this article, you have to rigorously ignore the fact that US colleges and universities have been SPRINTING to the left for decades.

Alt-right propaganda. What you brainfucked bigots are afraid of is creative thinking. American Universities are all in the business of helping college students develop creative thinking skills. Developing logic and reasoning skills, that will overcome "in the beginning god created every fucking thing." You're terrified that American kids will reject all the bigot white supremacist christian dogma bullshit that you're pitching to your children, and develop the intelligence to figure it out for themselves.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by whell

I'm sure this is the type of stuff that keeps you from sleeping well at night, along with the massive threat to this country posed by Moms for Liberty. LOL!

Moms For Liberty is a fascist extremist group.

Moms for Liberty is an American right-wing political organization that advocates against school curriculums that mention LGBT rights, race and ethnicity, critical race theory, and discrimination. Multiple chapters have also campaigned to ban books that address gender and sexuality from school libraries, and the group has campaigned for LGBT students to be kept separated from straight and cisgender students. Founded in 2021, the group began by campaigning against COVID-19 protections in schools, including mask and vaccine mandates.

The group is influential within the Republican Party. Many of the group's chapters across the U.S. have forged close ties to right-wing extremist groups, including the Proud Boys and Three Percenters, as well as sovereign citizen, QAnon, and Christian nationalist organizations. In 2023, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks extremists, termed Moms for Liberty a far-right extremist organization.

Moms for Liberty has been criticized for harassment, for deepening divisions among parents, for making students' education more difficult, and for having close ties to the Republican Party rather than being a genuine grassroots effort.

Moms for Liberty among conservative groups named 'extremist' by civil rights watchdog

Slavery and slave trading happened. The genocide of native American peoples happened. The treason of the American Civil War happened. The persecution of American women happened, and still happens. The persecution of anyone who isn't a white supremacist heterosexual christian is happening right now. Big organization, small organization, who fucking cares...Moms For Liberty are racist, fascist, homophobic, transphobic, anti-vaxx, scum.

You are a fucking fascist.

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Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Moms For Liberty is a fascist extremist group.

More SPLC bullshit.

Moms for Liberty among conservative groups named 'extremist' by civil rights watchdog

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

You are a fucking fascist.