Do any of DJT's followers realize they're fascist,

[duforsure]

Backing a fascist wantabe dictator DJT? I don't think they have a clue. They get fed so much propaganda , and told they are Patriots, which isn't the truth at all, they're traitors. The truth is DJT's biggest enemy, and it undermines his propaganda. That's why he hates the media so much, except the ones that repeats his propaganda.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Nope

Having engaged with them in local facebook groups . . .

The don't know the difference between Communist, Socialist, Fascist - and some try compare the 'left' party of the nazis in the 1930's to the Democratic Party in the USA Present day.


Proving that just because someone has a four year degree or higher - that they are not intelligent.

[duforsure]

2. Some of them are pretty stupid, but there are a few smart ones,

That have been conned into believing they are victims, like he clams he is. They should watch on You Tube "How Fascism Works" the 10 tactics of fascism. The guy talking is Jason Stanley

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Where I live

There are a lot of very wealthy white people. And most of those guys - when you put it where the goats can get it?

They don't like non-white folks and want us brought to heel.

One of them ran in our borough this year - and failed miserably.

[Caliman73]

4. No they do not.

Part of fascism (basically part of any ideological movement) is to paint a narrative of yourself as a truth seer and those outside your movement as "sheep", "demons", etc... If you asked the Germans in the Wehrmacht, especially in the SS units, they would have told you that they were fighting for the good of Germany, for a world rid of vermin and degenerates. They would not have seen themselves as a genocidal fanatical movement lead by a monster.

When authoritarians take over, they go after two institutions first, The media, and Academia. This is why you see journalists locked up or killed in Russia, Iran, etc... Exactly why, as you said, Trump went after the "Fake News Media" and threatened journalists and set the mob on them. Same reason they are attacking CRT and Universities as Liberal indoctrination.

[NewHendoLib]

5. They think it describes a car " my car is the fassest"

They are so fucking stupid

[duforsure]

10. Fascism is a cult driven to believe the leader is the only one...

...who can fix everything, and protect them from being victimized. While he victimizes them, and robs them blind.

[uponit7771]

6. Like the Nazis they have normalized the horrible they bring.

[Tommymac]

7. Fascism always comes wrapped in Religion and The Flag

Those 1% Unregulated Capitalistic Authoritarians (Read Putin and Koch and Murdoch families et al) behind it KNOW HOW TO MARKET.

They have spent over a century refining advertising and marketing techniques, and use cutting edge technology to spread their disinformation and lies.

This ain't your granddaddy's Madison Avenue Ad campaign.

[LuckyCharms]

8. No. n/t

[Progressive Jones]

9. Their ignorance prevents this. nt

[Mike Nelson]

11. I think...

... a small number of them do know, yes. Still, the vast majority have no idea. And in that group, there are some so solid they will never consider the possibility.

[Irish_Dem]

13. Probably 50/50. Half of them know they are fascist and don't care.

As long as they get permanent power to continue white supremacy, the end justifies the mean in their minds.

[Septua]

14. As has been said...

..Trump didn't change GOP, he just revealed it. Trump projected a vision of returning the country to a circa 1950 era...that's all they see and have no idea what you call it or what it actually is. It is simply what they want...