Chris Hall
chrishall1969.bsky.social
Chris Hall
@chrishall1969.bsky.social
Progressive Lefty.
So, yeah, Trump and his MAGAs are definitely fascist, if not the exact same type of fascists that the Nazis were (e.g., the enemy scapegoat for the Nazis were the Jews, but not so with Trump and his MAGAs, etc.).
So, Jon, yeah, it is correct to call Trump and his MAGAs "fascist".
February 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
claiming that the universities and schools are "indoctrinating" students to "hate America" and that climate change science is a hoax, and any other objective science or studies that stand in opposition to his policies are a hoax.
February 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
was very belligerent in its use, and now threatens Canada, Mexico, Panama, and Greenland (Denmark) with annexation and potential invasion; Trump has been critical of objective, fact-based education and science,
February 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trump has blamed all of the problems in society on "immigrants" and other parties critical of him, calling them "the worst of the worst, criminals, rapists, and vermin who "poison the blood of our people"; Trump has been building up the US military and, in his first term,
February 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trump and his MAGAs have been threatening to prosecute any opposition parties, calling them "the enemy from within"; Trump has been very belligerent and intolerant of any media & press organizations, calling them "fake news" and threatening to sue them, isolate them, and remove their licenses;
February 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Trump and his MAGAs believe that white people are an unfairly persecuted, superior race; Trump and his followers think that things in this country have gotten bad and that we need to go back to how things used to be when there was less freedom for "inferior" peoples to "make America great again";
February 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
So, let's add MAGAism to the list of fascist parties/governments, along with the Nazis and all the rest. Trump and his MAGA want: a single, authoritarian leader who rules by decree and for whom all of his followers are undyingly loyal and willing to sacrifice anything;
February 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
There are more, but the above is the gist of it. All of the examples I gave above have all or most of those features. The MAGAs in America have most of those qualities, too, or at least Trump and his government are energetically working to achieve those goals in government.
February 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
6. Militarization of society and culture with the build-up of military might as a top priority and frequently military aggression and expansion.
7. Deep suspicion and antipathy towards intellectualism, rationality, and objective, factual education and science.
February 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
5. Suppression of all opposition parties.
5. Vilifying and suppression of the free press.
6. Scapegoating of a minority, vulnerable group of people as the enemy of the people and the cause of all of society's woes, and then the oppression and/or destruction of that minority group.
February 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
1. Authoritarian, single-leader government, including the elimination of individual civil rights in place of duty to the state.
2. Myth of racial superiority of it's people.
3. Myth of a glorified past that the government wants to restore to make their country "great again".
February 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Examples of fascists are Italy's Fascists, Germany's Nazis, Japan's Imperial Japan (the "Far East Asian Coprosperity Sphere"), Franco's Spanish Fascists, Orband's Hungarian Fascists, etc. These governments all have the following qualities:
February 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
That is an error.
It is true that MAGAs are not Nazis (although, there are a bunch of Neo-Nazis in their ranks). But, MAGAs are DEFINITELY fascists. Let me explain. Fascism is a broad type of right-wing, authoritarian, racist, militaristic societies.
February 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM