Randal Rauser

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21 Points Illustrating a Pattern of Fascist Behavior in Donald Trump

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Many people scoff at the idea that Donald Trump could be moving the USA toward fascism. But just add it all together and see what pattern emerges:

  1. He calls the press the “enemy of the people”
  2. He says “I alone can fix it”
  3. He personalizes the military as “my military”
  4. He repeatedly calls for the previous president (Obama) and his previous opposition candidate (Clinton) to be arrested and put in jail
  5. He is systemically attempting to create doubt about the legitimacy of democratic elections
  6. He “jokes” about being president for life
  7. He “jokes” about his children being president directly after him
  8. He praises dictators like Duterte, Putin and MBS
  9. He congratulated President Xi Jinping upon becoming president for life
  10. He promotes isolationism and attacks international agreements and institutions like NATO and the G7
  11. He believes the Department of Justice and Attorney General exist to serve and protect him rather than the People and the Laws of the United States
  12. He has a white supremacist (Stephen Miller) in the White House
  13. He frequently promotes conspiracy theories and perpetuates fake news
  14. He promotes the use of violence against his enemies/critics
  15. He demands fidelity from the Republican party and seeks to destroy any critics
  16. He solicited a foreign power (Ukraine) to intervene in the upcoming election by acquiring information on his opponent
  17. When the Turkish secret police assaulted peaceful protesters in Washington D.C. he remained silent
  18. When MBS had a journalist from America killed and dismembered he defended MBS
  19. He demands fidelity from the Republican party and seeks to destroy any critics
  20. He calls himself the greatest president since Lincoln, if not ever
  21. He just deployed the military to attack peaceful protesters in Washington D.C. so that he could stage a propagandistic photo event

That’s just off the top of my head. Trump is a fascist. Resist him.

(Three years ago, I posted a review of Timothy Synder’s On Tyranny. It is disturbing to see how far we’ve come.)