Much of which is currently happening.
Counterpoint:
If fascism was the fusion of state and corporate interest with the aim of gaining control of physical reality, it only makes sense that Trumpism (insofar as it could even be considered a coherent “ideology”), as the first truly postmodern ideology, would fuse state and media interest to gain control of physical reality. Many of the comparisons between European fascism and Trumpism could be circumstantially similar, but ideologically the motivations, organization, and spirit of the movements are substantially qualitatively different.
Trumpism is arguably worse than fascism, but not because it's more brutal or totalitarian, but because it's infinitely more stupid, incoherent, and ad-hoc.
An oldie but goodie. Especially relevant today."When facism comes to Anerica it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a bible"
------ Sinclair Lewis
Have you considered that stupid, incoherent and ad hoc is, in fact, an improvement on European fascism?
American fascism is here, and its only apparent ideology is owning the libs which, as ideologies go, is rather benign.
Well, I suppose that depends on your priorities!
The thing about owning libtards for dopamine is that you keep on needing another hit, and then another, and then another. Eventually you begin excommunicating libtards for totally benign and arbitrary reasons which aren't ideologically motivated. Instead of centralizing power in the state like European fascism might, you seek to disembowel the state because, naturally, it is filled with libtards.
The Trumpian "fascist" era isn't dissimilar from the fall of the Soviet Union. Total ideological death and the loss of grand narratives and a consensus politic leading to peasant infighting while oligarchs loot the carcass of a dying empire.
All of Trump's "fascist" policies can be repealed once he leaves office. Executive Orders last only as long as the administration that issues them.Characteristcs of fascism. . . .
. . . Much of which is currently happening.
Ah - there it is - - the Hitler/Nazi card. Well played!
Perhaps.....All of Trump's fascist policies can be repealed once he leaves office.
Can you cite to where and when this was said?"When facism comes to Anerica it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a bible"
------ Sinclair Lewis
"When facism comes to Anerica it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a bible"
------ Sinclair Lewis
Counterpoint:
If fascism was the fusion of state and corporate interest with the aim of gaining control of physical reality, it only makes sense that Trumpism (insofar as it could even be considered a coherent “ideology”), as the first truly postmodern ideology, would fuse state and media interest to gain control of physical reality. Many of the comparisons between European fascism and Trumpism could be circumstantially similar, but ideologically the motivations, organization, and spirit of the movements are substantially qualitatively different.
Trumpism is arguably worse than fascism, not because it's more brutal or totalitarian, but because it's infinitely more stupid, incoherent, and ad-hoc.
Much of which is currently happening.
That isnt really the point.Can you cite to where and when this was said?
and when all of them are gone, MAGA will have to start eating its own.I'm not sure about that.
Once MAGA owns the lib-progs, libtards in your vernacular, then, in no particular order, we'll move on to owning the RINOs, the wayward Libertarians, the Muslims, the Mexicans, the former slaves, the flag-burners, the cat owners and so forth and so on.
We will never be starved of dopamine.
MAGA.
and when all of them are gone, MAGA will have to start eating its own.
But who will be left to save them?
Can you cite to where and when this was said?
And this observation appeared in John Thomas Flynn's "As We Go Marching," published in 1944:James Waterman Wise, Jr., in a recent address here before the liberal John Reed club said that Hearst and Coughlin are the two chief exponents of fascism in America. If fascism comes, he added, it will not be identified with any "shirt" movement, nor with an "insignia," but it will probably be "wrapped up in the American flag and heralded as a plea for liberty and preservation of the constitution."
But when fascism comes it will not be in the form of an anti-American movement or pro-Hitler bund, practicing disloyalty. Nor will it come in the form of a crusade against war. It will appear rather in the luminous robes of flaming patriotism; it will take some genuinely indigenous shape and color, and it will spread only because its leaders, who are not yet visible, will know how to locate the great springs of public opinion and desire and the streams of thought that flow from them and will know how to attract to their banners leaders who can command the support of the controlling minorities in American public life. The danger lies not so much in the would-be Fuhrers who may arise, but in the presence in our midst of certainly deeply running currents of hope and appetite and opinion. The war upon fascism must be begun there.
"When facism comes to Anerica it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a bible"
------ Sinclair Lewis
Its still fascist while he does itAll of Trump's "fascist" policies can be repealed once he leaves office. Executive Orders last only as long as the administration that issues them.
Ah - there it is - - the Hitler/Nazi card. Well played!
All of Trump's "fascist" policies can be repealed once he leaves office. Executive Orders last only as long as the administration that issues them.
Ah - there it is - - the Hitler/Nazi card. Well played!
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