Trump And The Left's Accusations Of Fascism

Frontpagemag.com ^ | March 16, 2016 | Bruce Thornton

[Biggirl]

Donald Trump’s success in the primaries and his rhetoric have sparked troubled meditations about an awakening of fascist impulses among his supporters. Bret Stephens has drawn an analogy with the Thirties, “the last dark age of Western politics,” and compared Trump to Benito Mussolini. On the left, Dana Milbank, in a column titled “Trump Flirts with Fascism,” wrote about a campaign rally at which Trump was “leading supporters in what looked very much like a fascist salute,” a scene New York Times house-conservative David Brooks linked to the Nuremberg party rallies.

[drpix]

The fundamental principle of Fascism is: "What the state does not own it must control."

Can there be a better description of the policies and practices of Obama and his Democratic?

[onedoug]

Not even worthy of comment.

[Biggirl]

And it is backfiring in a sucessful way.

[drpix]

CORRECTION:

"Obama and his Democratic." = "Obama and his Democrats."

[CMB_polarization]

Sounds like the politics of climate change.

[Spok]

Obama reads our emails and listens to our phone calls; Obama openly rebels against constitutional limits on his authority and boastfully bypasses congress; Obama promulgates oppressive regulations with thousands of pages of rules without apology; Obama ponders prosecuting climate deniers; Obama unilaterally opens our borders to millions of political supporters without regard to the law or public safety; Obama uses the IRS and DOJ to punish his political opponents and chill free speech; Obama targets Americans who believe in rights of the unborn, the Second Amendment and Christianity. Who’s the fascist?

[Albion Wilde]

"Much of the rhetoric that links Trump to fascism or Nazism is merely the stale ad Hitlerum fallacy used by progressives to demonize the candidate. They did the same thing when they called George W. Bush 'Bushitler.' This slur reflects the hoary leftist dogma that conservatives at heart are repressed xenophobes and knuckle-dragging racists lusting for a messianic leader to restore their lost 'white privilege' and punish their minority, immigrant, and feminist enemies. As such, the attack on Trump is nothing new or unexpected from a progressive ideology whose totalitarian inclinations have always had much more in common with fascism than conservatism does."