The Slow Walk To Fascism Is Now In Full Swing...

 

Does anyone remember when DJT stated,  just vote, vote for me and you'll never have to vote again?

I do. 

Folks, he was not joking. He was projecting his and his Trumpublican Party's Project 2025 agenda should he win. He won.

Now the train to true elite fascist government is in motion. And, unless the resistance from us, We the (aware) People, is massive and sustained for the long haul democracy and the rule of law will die. Suffocated by the dank unholy darkness of MAGA and its fascist energies.

Our founders, while they were certainly not flawless as they allowed slavery to be institutionalized in our Constitution. Thus we continue to suffer in its dehumanizing wake.

While Democratic strategists debate whether or not their attack ads labeling Donald Trump a fascist have been effective, experts and academics told the Guardian his campaign and the Republican party he now heads have clear autocratic sympathies and political qualities that are firmly in line with fascism movements historically.

Put together, that makes any Trump victory this week and his return to the White House for a second presidential term a clear threat to US democracy, they added.

“There couldn’t be a more obvious example of a fascist social and political movement about to take power,” said Jason Stanley, a Yale philosophy professor whose new book, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, looks at the global playbook of fascists through the lens of America and beyond.

Stanley continued: “Trump and the people behind him have already promised to replace the government at all levels with loyalists. [LGBTQ+] citizens, particularly trans citizens and their families, will have to leave the country. Political opponents will be targeted in some way ranging from financial penalties to prison.”

Even Trump’s own longest-serving chief of staff during his time in the White House, John Kelly, put his former boss under “the general definition of a fascist”, the same political category as the infamous Axis leaders Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Kamala Harris openly agreed with that assessment.

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“I think it’s important to remember that fascism isn’t a binary. Fascism is a process,” said Hughes in an interview with the Guardian. “Since the very beginning of the Trump campaign in 2015, there’s been a lot of denialism and a lot of whistling past the graveyard, but the symptoms keep adding up.”

At the inception of his administration, Hughes pointed out, Trump instituted the Muslim ban and described Latino immigration as a sort of infestation, all classic fascistic attacks on “an enemy within, a group that can be targeted and scapegoated for all the problems of society”.

Then came the strongman tactics of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election – a cause still pursued by many Trump acolytes who see him as a “fascist imaginary”, as Hughes puts it.

“Now we finally have stated policy goals of targeting political enemies, not just through lawfare, but also through violence and myriad other examples of plans to govern in a way that mirrors 20-century fascism,” he said.

Both Hitler and Mussolini similarly practiced the classic performance of screaming and hand-gesturing at rallies, threatening their enemies during their rise to power. Trump’s off-the-cuff speech style, now and in previous campaigns, has become synonymous with that kind of machismo and callback to the 30s.

Even while in power, Trump set the stage for his comeback and the basis for what Stanley sees as a surefire fascist state to come.

“The courts will be replaced by loyalists, as we have already seen with the supreme court of the United States,” he said, referring to three ultra-conservative justices Trump already installed while in power. In Nazi Germany, government officials at all levels, legal and bureaucratic, had to declare strict allegiances to the party.

Since those Trump appointments, the nation’s highest court delivered landmark rulings overturning abortion rights and bestowing kingly powers to the presidency, almost akin to the Third Reich or the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, who ruled over his country until 1975.

Critics say LGBTQ+ rights are next on his hit list of issues for the courts, if Trump returns to power. Notably, the fascist governments of Hitler and Mussolini outlawed queer, Roma and Jewish people, disappearing those they deemed political undesirables in a series of mass killings or jailings that led up to their so-called “final solution” and the Holocaust.

But the first stage of Trump’s potential fascist-like state, as Stanley told the Guardian, will involve solidifying the authority of a single party, not unlike how Viktor Orbán of Hungary (often called a “neo-fascist”) has eviscerated any semblance of an opposition in the former eastern bloc country.

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