Perhaps most urgently, they are wondering whether his rhetorical turn into more fascist-sounding territory is just his latest public provocation of the left, an evolution in his beliefs or the dropping of a veil.
It's fascism. Say it, you coward.
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It's like watching the fallout of Roko's Basilisk except all they are actually afraid of is fallout from this orange fraud and his supporters. Can't say anything bad because he might become president again and then he'll come after us.
What a fuckin time to be alive.
Fascist rhetoric to scare or anger your political enemies isn’t less fascist
Nothing is new under the sun. Watch your MAGA neighbors closely. Any representatives with ties to the right mentioning civil war should be just as much an alarm. They're saying their plans out loud. Listen to them.
Yeah these Gravy Seals are just looking for a reason to LARP as Chuck Norris in Delta Force, who secretly believe they are the main character is some chuuni fanfic.
Unfortunately this "LARP" has tangible and lasting effects on our democracy.
If these fears are new you haven’t been paying attention.
He's gotten a lot more explicit about planning a fascist dictatorship since his coup attempt failed. We won't see a bunch of Republicans refuse to back one in the moment again
The first time is just practice if there are no consequences. And he suffered no consequences from it yet.
Exactly. Even Hitler went to jail for a while after his first coup attempt. Trump hasn't had to.
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"Authoritarian bent". Lmao, what a cesspool.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Donald J. Trump rose to power with political campaigns that largely attacked external targets, including immigration from predominantly Muslim countries and from south of the United States-Mexico border.
During a Veterans Day speech, Mr. Trump used language that echoed authoritarian leaders who rose to power in Germany and Italy in the 1930s, degrading his political adversaries as “vermin” who needed to be “rooted out.”
These ambitions include using the Justice Department to take vengeance on his political rivals, plotting a vast expansion of presidential power and installing ideologically aligned lawyers in key positions to bless his contentious actions.
He has tested the legal system with broadsides against the integrity of the judiciary, railing against prosecutors, judges and, more recently, a law clerk in his New York fraud trial as “politically biased” and “out of control.”
Crowds at Mr. Trump’s events have generally affirmed his calls to drive out the political establishment and to destroy the “fake news media.” Supporters do not flinch when he praises leaders like Mr. Orban, Xi Jinping of China and Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
It also often features a cult of personality around a strongman leader, the justification of violence or retribution against opponents, and the repeated denigration of the rule of law, said Peter Hayes, a historian who has studied the rise of fascism.
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I feel like this headline comes out every week.
He's been getting much more explicit about his desire to end democracy and kill or deport large numbers of people without due process.
Yeah, I agree, I just wish the media would really take him to task.
They won't do it with their own voice. I do recommend laying out the case that he's a fascist in a letter to the editor of the nearest paper to you.
At first I read this as Trump’s dying words…
Don't tease us like that.
If he manages to win again… somehow… I hope all those fucktards who voted for him have their lives destroyed and their children drafted into the military to die horrible and painful deaths in the war with everyone that he will inevitably start.
/rant
They better lock him up quick.
Many who deserve death, life, etc Gandalf quote. If Trump is reelected, the whole world will pay the price. Be moved more by pity than bitterness, if you can.
If you’re gonna “guilt me,” at least give me the whole quote. You can be a cunt, or you can be lazy—but you can’t be both.
If you know the quote, then why shouldn't I be lazy? If you don't, then you have better things to read than the 4am mutterings of a cunt.
I’m glad we agree