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In reply to the discussion: You do realize he has gone full fascist in his speeches. [View all]Johnny2X2X
(19,021 posts)78. Yes
I've been trying to get people to see this, his rallies have always been violent and extreme, but they've changed in tone recently to the type of hyper nationalism that is a hallmark of fascism.
Even people on the left are asleep, he's done nothing but consolidate power the last 2 years. The FBI now targets his opponents at his order. We have crossed a line and a Democratic Congress is the only possible defense against totalitarianism taking hold in America.
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. We are further down the road towards fascism than many realize or want to admit
Va Lefty
Oct 2018
#3
I have seen this coming for a long time, but I never actually thought we would get this
smirkymonkey
Oct 2018
#6
Transcript and video of Yale Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder on the coming authoritarianism.
Grasswire2
Oct 2018
#39
I agree but would add it's not just Trump, it's also the moneyed interests that put him into power.
jalan48
Oct 2018
#8
Yes. These are the folks pulling the strings. If it's not Trump it will be someone else like him.
jalan48
Oct 2018
#13
Exactly. One of the other pundits said to him, you don't call yourself a nationalist!
BeckyDem
Oct 2018
#36
Both the R & D parties were opposed to these regimes. They actually came together.
madinmaryland
Oct 2018
#48
South Africans defeated apartheid, Poles defeated communists with solidarity, Chileans defeated Pino
mahina
Oct 2018
#88