Posted on 06/01/2016 10:56:03 AM PDT by BlackAdderess
Recently, there have been a number of articles and statements asserting that fascism is rising in Europe, and that Donald Trump is an American example of fascism. This is a misrepresentation of a very real phenomenon. The nation-state is reasserting itself as the primary vehicle of political life. Multinational institutions like the European Union and multilateral trade treaties are being challenged because they are seen by some as not being in the national interest. The charge of a rise in fascism derives from a profound misunderstanding of what fascism is. It is also an attempt to discredit the resurgence of nationalism and to defend the multinational systems that have dominated the West since World War II.
Nationalism is the core of the Enlightenment’s notion of liberal democracy. It asserts that the multinational dynasties that ruled autocratically denied basic human rights. Among these was the right to national self-determination and the right of citizens to decide what was in the national interest. The Enlightenment feared tyranny and saw the multinational empires dominating Europe as the essence of tyranny.(snip)
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what in the world do you even mean by that???
Did you actually read the article????
I believe that what Trump is reawakening in the American people is a sense of patriotism.....or worth and fairness and exceptionalism
Too many people cling to the notion that
the US is a republic. Ever since the Commerce
Clause [and arguably prior to that] interpretation
during the Bush administration was decided
by Raich v Gonzales, the barriers to federal
reach were blown down. What we have now is
a nation state.
America is unique in that we have a constitutional republic and people who support it are call right wing. Liberals, socialists, marxists, progressives (all the same animal) want unconstitutional centralized power over all people and resources. Libertarians only want central control over the culture, thus, the people.
In Europe there is no “right”. There are National socialists and International socialists (Marxists). The globalists here are trying to fit us into this sick framework. If you are not an International socialist, you are a fascist (National socialist).
Globalism is a pox on the whole world.
When someone is labeled "nationalist", they probably are; when someone is labeled "fascist", they probably are if they're in the Demagogic Party, otherwise, probably not. And use of the terms "neocon" and "globalist" are for the most part diagnostic of incoherent inchoate animus, rather than any intellectual process.
Santorum would have been an example of nationalism. Trump has no concern for the Constitution or facts. He’s for higher immigration, touchback amnesty as a negotiating point with Democrats, and talks about immigrants doing jobs Americans wont.
He’s a progressive. Vote for him against Hillary, but don’t call him a nationalist.
Wrong. He’s not for any of those things.
In my experience, there are those who use the ‘neocon’ tag in much the same way that 1930’s Germans used the ‘filthy jew’ tag, and for much the same reason.
And it’s usually not from the ‘right’. It’s the usual suspects among the mouth-breeding, snot-gobbling, intellectually inbred, thumb-sucking left who are p.o’d that anyone can stand against them on any issue at any time.
That explains why Pitchfork Pat uses it -- he's on record that the extreme left and extreme right are natural allies.
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