Donald Trump has declared war on the media, on Democrats, on Governors, on China...

[kentuck]

...and anyone else he can use as a distraction for his own failures.

The sad part is that his cult eats it up. The more divisive he is, the more they like it.

Do you fight fire with fire or do you take the "high" road?

He talked about Democrats as if every Democrat in this country was a criminal and was automatically wrong if they disagreed with him.

I know a lot of Democrats that have hesitated about getting down in the mud with this clown. They try to ignore him and his followers. They believe the American people can see thru it.

The next election is starting to look like a re-run of the 2016 election. Free TV time and propaganda and lies thru the social media platforms.

I don't know that any Democrat can keep up the constant 24-hour per day attacks?

I do believe that the Democrats need to get much more aggressive against this type of politics but, there should be no illusions but that he would whine about "dirty politics" if they hit him too hard. It's a Catch-22.

Given enough time, and it appears he will get it, this whole tragic story with coronavirus with be the fault of the Democrats and the American people are lucky to have Donald Trump to save them from the disaster that could have been.

I think Democrats should start hitting him on social media, especially Facebook, with guerrilla tactics. Sign on to the Democratic Socialist FB page and they have a ton of ammunition to use. Every third or fourth post, put one of their hard-hitting attacks on Facebook or Twitter. But make it like a hit and run. Don't hang around for comments or get into discussions. Be a Facebook guerrilla. It will take a lot to catch up to their Facebook campaign.

Just my opinion.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Fascist Selective Populism

[kentuck]

2. Can you explain ?

I do think Democrats need a more aggressive strategy or this next election will not turn out well. I wish I was more confident, but when I see him getting an hour or two or free propaganda every day, it is rather discouraging.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. Essay on Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco

Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of view – one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.

[2naSalit]

3. He declared war in our country 1/21/2017 with his

American carnage screech. He redeclared war on We the People this past January when we didn't get kicked out of office.

We must defend ourselves while running him out of office. He is killing us. We have to fight back.

[lpbk2713]

5. He thinks Nancy Pelosi is hiding in every corner and under every bed.

It won't be much longer till he completely loses it. I hope it happens on live TV.

[struggle4progress]

6. It's lonely at the top