Fascism IS here now

[4bonhoffer]

Father was a WW2 combat vet so I grew up believing that if the things that are happening in our country now ever occurred that at least the Democratic Party would be raising holy hell. That ain’t happening, not even close. Bless the people who are standing up, but we need the entire Democratic Party to stand up and start screaming about how far down the road of fascism we are. To break through to people who barely pay attention to the news we need the entire party to pound the table. We are trying to reach people who have no knowledge about sites like this.

I realize this is anecdotal but people who I speak with all say the same thing. Where are the Democrats? Again, there are some who are truly amazing, but the quietness of the majority of the party at this point in time is disheartening to say the least. We don’t have the money or the media infrastructure of the right which is why we need the entire Democratic Party to be screaming and pounding the table about what’s happening. Sitting back and counting on midterms that may or may not happen is not showing strength or warning people about just how dangerous the situation is right now.

Bless those Dems who are out front on this but considering that the party won’t even acknowledge that voter caging exists let alone implement it, while the Republicans have been actively employing it , is just one example of us sitting in the basement debating where to install a smoke detector while the freaking house is on fire.

[SSJVegeta]

1. But for how long will we allow it? And to what extent will it pervade?

[Deuxcents]

2. I take exception to your post. We The People are the only ones who can change the direction we're on.

Hanging your rant on the Democratic Party may make you feel better but those who have fought for our freedoms are of every political, religious or non political, non religious stripes. Write, call your elected representatives. Participate in your right to organize, attend meetings, rallies and bring as many people with you when you go to vote. Raise your own good trouble..see you at the polls 🗳️

[wolfie001]

13. Senator Wyden's town hall was interrupted by those Gaza protestors AGAIN!!!

I deleted a rant, but this optic is so problematic. It's gonna hurt our party again.

[usonian]

3. From some of my previous posts.

Things have already gone too far for business as usual.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220489632

WHY?

THAT'S WHY

THAT'S WHY

THAT'S WHY

General Strike Info
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10114325 (Activist HQ)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220438506 (GD)

Goddam it, we already have secret police and concentration camps.

IT MUST STOP NOW

Every day of acquiescence makes an end to fascism more costly in lost freedom and LIVES.

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An open letter to Democratic leaders. This is our Normandy. Marshall all our forces or lose to fascist rule.



Nazis are in the streets pounding on doors.
We have a secret police force.
We have concentration camps in the U.S.

What are we doing?

We are attacking the fascist assault on America like a Normandy invasion by thousand bass boats armed with 22's with no coordination. no powerful, strategic leadership.

The Fascists have a playbook. We don't.
I posted some informative links in this post:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/13243807
The fascists have a playbook. Do we?

What are leaders doing?

Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been criss-crossing the country taking the anti-rich anti-authoritarian message to people in blue and red states.

Senators and representatives have spoken out loudly and powerfully in congress, which remains a rubber stamp for the Hitler Wannabe.

Governors have spoken out and put up resistance to the attempted destruction of state autonomy.
I'll be short on names because that's not the point.

There is no modern-day General Eisenhower coordinating forces, working strategies to deceive the enemy and break the fascist assault.

In between elections, there is no ongoing political or ideological leadership.
Except DNC, and I'll say no more about that organization.

UNTIL SUCH LEADERSHIP STEPS UP,

All I can offer is a list of organizations planning and conducting rallies, protests, boycotts and strikes.
Please update the list here in Activist Headquarters.

I subscribe to the Indivisible mailing list, and as of today, Indivisible and NoKings are endorsing

One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism


https://www.nokings.org/rise


Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and full-scale attacks on our democracy. We don’t have to wait until it’s too late. We can stop this. But it’ll take all of us—not just single days of mass action, but sustained organizing in our communities.

That’s why this summer, we’re launching One Million Rising—a national effort to train one million people in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign design. This is how we build people power that can’t be ignored. You’re invited to join us—and lead.



In response to a post by Swede,
Nothing matters to them until it kicks in their front door and walks in and shits on their table.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220539610

I posted this:
Are WE waiting for them to kick in the door and shit on our tables? The time to take action is LAST YEAR.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20539639

Here's just the top of that post, in case anyone feels either:
a. despondent, or
b. powerless

We have collective power, under the leadership of organizations stepping up to the challenge.
Who will take the baton?

Now hear this:
Goddam it, we already have secret police and concentration camps.
Repeat:
Goddam it, we already have secret police and concentration camps.

Are we waiting for Leni Riefenstahl to stage a new military parade?


(repost)
The fascists have a playbook. Do we?
The fascist playbook has been acted out for years.
Here are some explanations.

10 Small Steps: Executing the Fascist Playbook
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/10-small-steps-executing-the-fascist-playbook_b_585dfec2e4b04d7df167cfab

The Fascists’ Playbook
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/08/the-fascists-playbook/

MORE AT THE LINK, and I leave you with this reminder of brave souls who did not give up in the face of impossible odds.
And who had outstanding leaders.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219813493

Hint:


Instead of that Nazi rally, this:



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Who's raising hell all over this land?



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I don't accept the Nazi takeover and will do everything within my power to stop it.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20556131
Too long to copy and paste.

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We can beat these thugs.
Brave people did it before us.
Disheartened? These people never gave up when faced with enormous obstacles.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219813493

[LW1977]

4. Thread trashed

Sitting in the fetal position will do nothing

[leftstreet]

5. sigh

At what point will people admit that the Democratic brand is so tarnished with the TrumpHumpers, that pounding the podiums of OraNge MAn BaD, just ignites them more?!

It's what they want.

Far more effective for party leaders and members to start pounding the podiums of Medicare For All or $25 an hr wage, or 4 day work week!

[KPN]

9. Exactly. We need more Bernie and AOC's.

[W_HAMILTON]

12. I don't know what one Sanders has accomplished that would lead one to believe that more of him would solve our problems.

[KPN]

15. Okay.

[wolfie001]

14. God dam this lady to hell

I'm not even religious but I hate her passionately.

[kimbutgar]

6. Everyday I can't get over how far our country has fallen and become disrespected because the orange pedo felon

And Had his buddy the muskrat rig the election in his favor. And we have an evil, lying and immoral person running our country with a bunch of psychopaths along side him guiding him on to even lower monstrous depths everyday!

[Kid Berwyn]

7. How it came about...

The truth about what has happened to democracy in the name of national security may as well be science-fiction to 99% of America. Today's Nazification goes back to the assassination of President Kennedy.

Two members of the Warren Commission also, coincidentally sure, played key roles in the rise of post-war fascism. Allen Dulles, as a top official of the OSS and CIA, incorporated NAZI war criminals into the CIA from its founding. John McCloy, as High Commissioner for Germany, allowed Klaus Barbie, Alfred Krupp, eight members of his board, and who-knows-who-else to escape justice. Of course, Dulles and McCloy also were barons of Wall Street and Beltway Insiders, at the heart of the military industrial complex, chums with Prescott Bush n Poppy. So, we can see what that has meant for the United States today.

Background:

The American who let the Nazis rebuild Germany

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/november-2021/the-american-who-let-the-nazis-rebuild-germany/

CIA and NAZI War Criminals

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB146/index.htm

The Real McCloy

THE CHAIRMAN: JOHN J. McCLOY; The Making of the American Establishment,
By Kai Bird (Simon & Schuster: $30; 800 pp.)

By ROBERT SHERRILL
APRIL 19, 1992, The Los Angeles Times

EXCERPT...

When McCloy took over as high commissioner of defeated Germany, he talked a tough line about crushing the many still- active Nazis. But he promptly turned to mush, permitting Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to fill his cabinet with notorious antisemites and Nazi war criminals (some of whom became McCloy’s personal friends). McCloy also vastly expanded the shameful programs begun before he got to Germany, of letting some of the worst war criminals off the hook.

He commuted two-thirds of the death sentences of mass murderers (such as the SS officer who personally executed 1,500 Jews) and radically reduced the prison sentences of doctors who had conducted experiments on death-camp inmates, of high-ranking Nazi Judges who had administered Gestapo justice, and of industrialists who had built the Nazi war machine.

McCloy freed some immediately, including Alfred Krupp, whose munitions factories had worked thousands of slave laborers to death. Krupp’s original sentence had included loss of all property; McCloy canceled that punishment and within a few years Krupp was again one of the richest industrialists in the world. Obviously McCloy’s obsequiousness toward money and power made him the wrong man to reform Nazi Germany. “Though he could understand the special culpability of the ‘big Nazis,’ ” Bird writes, “when it came to a wealthy and politically well-connected man like Krupp, he suspended his good judgment.”

As high commissioner, McCloy dabbled disastrously in the intelligence business, setting up a network of agents in Germany that included the likes of Klaus Barbie, who had shipped 78,000 French Jews to the gas chambers, and Gen. Reinhard Gehlen, who had been responsible for some of the “grisliest mass killings on the Eastern Front.” Not surprisingly, many of the intelligence operations carried out under McCloy were, says Bird, “fiascos.”

CONTINUES...

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-19-bk-588-story.html

Mr. McCloy was joined by another “Mr. Establishment” type with extensive ties to wealthy NAZI industrialists and anti-communist NAZI spy rings, former CIA Director Allen Dulles, in service on the Warren Commission. Coincidentally. Their colleagues kept faith in the Almighty Dollar.

CIA Chief Bush Suppresses the News

By Robert Gardner
FAIR Exclusive
May/June 1999

Documents obtained by FAIR, released through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), show that George Bush, as head of the CIA in 1976, tried to bottle up a news story that exposed the apparent duplicity of another former CIA chief, Richard Helms.

The story, broken on Oct. 1, 1976, by David Martin (now CBS Pentagon correspondent, then with Associated Press), revealed that Helms had given misleading testimony to the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of John Kennedy. Helms testified that the CIA had not "even contemplated" making contact with Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin. Through the FOIA, Martin obtained CIA memos showing that in 1960 the agency "showed intelligence interest" in Oswald and "discussed...the laying on of interviews" with him.

When Bush saw the AP story in the Washington Star, he asked for an internal CIA review to see if the story was true (it was) and if it would "cause problems for Helms." (Helms had lied to a Senate committee about the CIA's role in subverting Chilean democracy and would later be convicted of contempt of Congress.)

After investigating, Bush assistant Seymour Bolten reported back that the exposure of Helms' false testimony to the Warren Commission would probably cause Helms "some anxious moments," though not "any additional legal problems." But Bush was assured that a "slightly better" story had resulted from an Agency phone call to AP protesting that Martin's story was "sloppy." Additionally, Bush was told that an unnamed journalist had "advised his editors . . . not to run the AP story."

Bolten complained to Bush: "This is another example where material provided to the press and public in response to an FOIA request is exploited mischievously and in distorted form to make the headlines." One might more accurately describe it as an occasion where George Bush's CIA pressured one news outlet to back away from an accurate story while using an asset in the press corps to suppress it in another.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1491

I don’t think US citizens should be considered “Enemies of the State” for upholding the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Angus Mackenzie: "Secrets: The CIA's War at Home"

EXCERPT...

A month later someone at the CIA leaked the news of MHCHAOS to Sy Hersh at the New York Times. The story, while sparse, made public the fact that the agency was spying on its citizens. Gerald Ford, in office for less than five months, directed William Colby to issue a report on MHCHAOS to Henry Kissinger. As Mackenzie writes, evidently Ford was not informed that Kissinger was well aware of the operation. He adds:

Because of MHCHAOS and Watergate, Congress began to investigate the CIA. On September 16, 1975 Senators Frank Church and John Tower called Colby to testify at a hearing about CIA assassinations. Colby showed up carrying a CIA poison dart gun, and Church waved the gun before the televison cameras. It looked like an automatic pistol with a telescopic sight mounted on the barrel. Producers of the evening news recognized this as sensational footage, and just as surely Colby recognized his days as director were numbered. He had not guarded the CIA secrets well enough.

Colby was fired on November 2, 1975. His successor was George Herbert Walker Bush.....

Mackenzie's account of Bush's rise and and his fall when Carter assumed office is brief, but intriguing. There is much, much more in Secrets about CIA efforts throughout the years in guarding their work from the public in this under-recognized work. The epilogue is entitled "The Cold War Ends and Secrecy Spreads." Mackenzie closes by writing:

Only recently in the history of the world's oldest republic has secrecy functioned principally to keep the American people in the dark about the nefarious activities of their government. The United States is no longer the nation its citizens once thought: a place, unlike most others in the world, free from censorship and thought police, where people can say what they want, when they want to, about their government. Almost a decade after the end of the cold war, espionage is not the issue, if it ever really was. The issue is freedom... Until the citizens of this land aggressively defend their First Amendment rights of free speech, there is little hope that this march to censorship will be reversed. The survival of the cornerstone of the Bill of Rights is at stake.

Succumbing to brain cancer before he turned fifty, Mackenzie sadly did not live to see the meteoric rise of the internet, nor did he live to see 9/11 and the current Bush Administration and their obsessive devotion to secrecy.

This work has relevance to the current situation regarding the agency's efforts to keep George Joannides' records secret.

SOURCE: http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=10617

Jimmy Carter tried weaning the US off fossil fuels. So the Petrodollars got together with the former spooks to dump Carter and foist a half century of Trickle Down on the nation.

From...

The State, the Deep State, and the Wall Street Overworld

By Prof Peter Dale Scott
Global Research, March 10, 2014
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Volume 12, Issue 10, No. 5

EXCERPT...

The Safari Club Milieu: George H.W. Bush, Theodore Shackley, and BCCI

The usual account of this super-agency’s origin is that it was

the brainchild of Count Alexandre de Marenches, the debonair and mustachioed chief of France’s CIA. The SDECE (Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage)…. Worried by Soviet and Cuban advances in postcolonial Africa, and by America’s post-Watergate paralysis in the field of undercover activity, the swashbuckling Marenches had come to Turki’s father, King Faisal, with a proposition…. [By 1979] Somali president Siad Barre had been bribed out of Soviet embrace by $75 million worth of Egyptian arms (paid for… by Saudi Arabia)….95

Joseph Trento adds that “The Safari Club needed a network of banks to finance its intelligence operations,… With the official blessing of George Bush as the head of the CIA, Adham transformed… the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), into a worldwide money-laundering machine.”.96

Trento claims also that the Safari Club then was able to work with some of the controversial CIA operators who were then forced out of the CIA by Turner, and that this was coordinated by perhaps the most controversial of them all: Theodore Shackley.

Shackley, who still had ambitions to become DCI, believed that without his many sources and operatives like [Edwin] Wilson, the Safari Club—operating with [former DCI Richard] Helms in charge in Tehran—would be ineffective. … Unless Shackley took direct action to complete the privatization of intelligence operations soon, the Safari Club would not have a conduit to [CIA] resources. The solution: create a totally private intelligence network using CIA assets until President Carter could be replaced.97

Kevin Phillips has suggested that Bush on leaving the CIA had dealings with the bank most closely allied with Safari Club operations: the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). In Phillips’ words,

After leaving the CIA in January 1977, Bush became chairman of the executive committee of First International Bancshares and its British subsidiary, where, according to journalists Peter Truell and Larry Gurwin in their 1992 book ‘False Profits’ [p. 345], Bush ‘traveled on the bank’s behalf and sometimes marketed to international banks in London, including several Middle Eastern institutions.’98

Joseph Trento adds that through the London branch of this bank, which Bush chaired, “Adham’s petrodollars and BCCI money flowed for a variety of intelligence operations”99

It is clear moreover that BCCI operations, like Khashoggi’s before them, were marked by the ability to deal behind the scenes with both the Arab countries and also Israel.100

It is clear that for years the American deep state in Washington was both involved with and protected BCCI. Acting CIA director Richard Kerr acknowledged to a Senate Committee “that the CIA had also used BCCI for certain intelligence-gathering operations.”101

Later, a congressional inquiry showed that for more than ten years preceding the BCCI collapse in the summer of 1991, the FBI, the DEA, the CIA, the Customs Service, and the Department of Justice all failed to act on hundreds of tips about the illegalities of BCCI’s international activities.102

Far less clear is the attitude taken by Wall Street banks towards the miscreant BCCI. The Senate report on BCCI charged however that the Bank of England “had withheld information about BCCI’s frauds from public knowledge for 15 months before closing the bank.”103

CONTINUED...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-state-the-deep-state-and-the-wall-street-overworld/5372843

George Bush Takes Charge: The Uses of ‘Counter-Terrorism’

By Christopher Simpson
Covert Action Quarterly 58

A paper trail of declassified documents from the Reagan‑Bush era yields valuable information on how counter‑terrorism provided a powerful mechanism for solidifying Bush's power base and launching a broad range of national security initiatives.

During the Reagan years, George Bush used "crisis management" and "counter‑terrorism" as vehicles for running key parts of the clandestine side of the US government.

Bush proved especially adept at plausible denial. Some measure of his skill in avoiding responsibility can be taken from the fact that even after the Iran‑Contra affair blew the Reagan administration apart, Bush went on to become the "foreign policy president," while CIA Director William Casey, by then conveniently dead, took most of the blame for a number of covert foreign policy debacles that Bush had set in motion.

The trail of National Security Decision Directives (NSDDS) left by the Reagan administration begins to tell the story. True, much remains classified, and still more was never committed to paper in the first place. Even so, the main picture is clear: [font size="5"][font color="green"]As vice president, George Bush was at the center of secret wars, political murders, and America's convoluted oil politics in the Middle East.[/font color][/font size]

SNIP...

Reagan and the NSC also used NSDDs to settle conflicts among security agencies over bureaucratic turf and lines of command. It is through that prism that we see the first glimmers of Vice President Bush's role in clandestine operations during the 1980s.

SNIP...

NSDD 159. MANAGEMENT OF U.S. COVERT OPERATIONS, (TOP SECRET/VEIL‑SENSITIVE), JAN. 18,1985

The Reagan administration's commitment to significantly expand covert operations had been clear since before the 1980 election. How such operations were actually to be managed from day to day, however, was considerably less certain. The management problem became particularly knotty owing to legal requirements to notify congressional intelligence oversight committees of covert operations, on the one hand, and the tacitly accepted presidential mandate to deceive those same committees concerning sensitive operations such as the Contra war in Nicaragua, on the other.

The solution attempted in NSDD 159 was to establish a small coordinating committee headed by Vice President George Bush through which all information concerning US covert operations was to be funneled. The order also established a category of top secret information known as Veil, to be used exclusively for managing records pertaining to covert operations.

The system was designed to keep circulation of written records to an absolute minimum while at the same time ensuring that the vice president retained the ability to coordinate US covert operations with the administration's overt diplomacy and propaganda.

Only eight copies of NSDD 159 were created. The existence of the vice president's committee was itself highly classified. The directive became public as a result of the criminal prosecutions of Oliver North, John Poindexter, and others involved in the Iran‑Contra affair, hence the designation "Exhibit A" running up the left side of the document.

CONTINUED...

CovertAction Quarterly no 58 Fall 1996 pp31-40.

The Receipts:

History Lesson missing from post-Dallas curricula...

George H. W. Bush was in Dallas on November 22, 1963. I know so because AFTER THE ASSASSINATION he phoned the FBI to report a name he heard threaten JFK:

TO: SAC, HOUSTON DATE: 11-22-63

FROM: SA GRAHAM W. KITCHEL

SUBJECT: UNKNOWN SUBJECT;
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
JOHN F. KENNEDY

At 1:45 p.m. Mr. GEORGE H. W. BUSH, President of the Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company, Houston, Texas, residence 5525 Briar, Houston, telephonically furnished the following information to writer by long distance telephone call from Tyler, Texas.

BUSH stated that he wanted to be kept confidential but wanted to furnish hearsay that he recalled hearing in recent weeks, the day and source unknown. He stated that one JAMES PARROTT has been talking of killing the President when he comes to Houston.

BUSH stated that PARROTT is possibly a student at the University of Houston and is active in political matters in this area. He stated that he felt Mrs. FAWLEY, telephone number SU 2-5239, or ARLINE SMITH, telephone number JA 9-9194 of the Harris County Republican Party Headquarters would be able to furnish additional information regarding the identity of PARROTT.

BUSH stated that he was proceeding to Dallas, Texas, would remain in the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel and return to his residence on 11-23-63. His office telephone number is CA 2-0395.

# # #

Of course, we didn’t know any of that until decades later when another FBI memo mentioned Mr. GEORGE Bush of the CIA” popped up when Poppy was running for preznit.

Date: November 29, 1963

To: Director
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Department of State

From: John Edgar Hoover, Director

Subject: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
NOVEMBER 22, 1963

Our Miami, Florida, Office on November 23, 1963, advised that the Office of Coordinator of Cuban Affairs in Miami advised that the Department of State feels some misguided anti-Castro group might capitalize on the present situation and undertake an unauthorized raid against Cuba, believing that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy might herald a change in U. S. policy, which is not true.

Our sources and informants familiar with Cuban matters in the Miami area advise that the general feeling in the anti-Castro Cuban community is one of stunned disbelief and, even among those who did not entirely agree with the President's policy concerning Cuba, the feeling is that the President's death represents a great loss not only to the U. S. but to all of Latin America. These sources know of no plans for unauthorized action against Cuba.

An informant who has furnished reliable information in the past and who is close to a small pro-Castro group in Miami has advised that these individuals are afraid that the assassination of the President may result in strong repressive measures being taken against them and, although pro-Castro in their feelings, regret the assassination.

The substance of the foregoing information was orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency and Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency on November 23, 1963, by Mr. W. T. Forsyth of this Bureau.

# # #

And the country today is set up with a Supreme Court stacked by fascists to side with a traitor installed by Putin, atop a kakistocracy comprised of plutocrats, oligarchs and a horde of murderous gangsters.

[Kaleva]

8. We are busy posting our anger here

[creeksneakers2]

10. I don't like these posts

claiming Democrats are sitting on their hands. They aren't true and they hurt turnout. Pollsters found one of the reasons we lost in '24 was that many young people believe Democrats aren't weren't doing enough so they stayed home. The people who say that never point to anything the Democrats should be doing but aren't. Your post is better because there is a suggestion that Fascism should be talked about more, but Democrats are already doing that. It has limited effectiveness though, because so many don't know what Fascism is and they refuse to believe the truth. It does sound far fetched but its true.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3201957/reductio-ad-hitlerum-60-years-democrats-falsely-calling-republican-nominee-fascist/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dem-rep-goldman-republicans-allowing-trump-to-take-over-every-single-aspect-of-this-country-like-a-fascist-dictator/ar-AA1KwROa

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-maga-republicans-semi-fascism/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/us/politics/harris-trump-fascism.html

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-trump-fascist/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/us/politics/vance-trump-fascist.html

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-fascist-concerns-poll/story?id=115083795

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/fascism-donald-trump-19857938.php

[Pris]

11. It is our country-We the people

How long will we stand it?
Are you protesting?
Calling republicans daily?
If they aren't afraid of the people they will continue.