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Popularizing the meme of Trump-as-fascist
American Thinker ^ | February 20, 2017 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 02/20/2017 6:40:56 AM PST by detective

There is an all-out campaign to plant the words “fascist” and “trump” together in the public mind.  Josef Goebbels and the advertising industry both know that if people hear or read a pair words together often enough, the brain starts associating them automatically. This is the theory behind The Big Lie, and is also the theory behind advertising that puts the concepts of “Coke” and “refreshing” together so often.

Thus, we have David Brooks, of the New York Times and PBS, expounding on taxpayer-subsidized airways, and invoking the f-word for our president. The entire 12-minute segment is embedded below for those who enjoy being condescended to, but the nut of his rant was excerpted by our friends at Breitbart

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fascism; fascist; jew; media; trump; trumpfascist
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There is a propaganda war being waged against the American people.
1 posted on 02/20/2017 6:40:56 AM PST by detective
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To: detective

I am stunned by the number of Liberals I meet who truly DO BELIEVE that Trump is Hitler.

I mean.....do they have any idea of the things Hitler actually did??


2 posted on 02/20/2017 6:43:23 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: detective
If Trump exaggerates the size of the inaugural crowd or is wrong about his margin of victory in the Electoral College, it is deemed a threat to the Republic.

But the media yawns when fascist, left-wing mobs smash windows, set fires, throw bricks at police, shut down free speech, block traffic, beat up Trump supporters, and encourage ten year-olds to smash a Trump piñata with iron pipes.
3 posted on 02/20/2017 6:47:08 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: detective

Obama and a$$hole became synonymous terms in the last 8 years and it didn’t even require and expensive media or propaganda campaign


4 posted on 02/20/2017 6:48:23 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Just ask them to define ‘Fascism’.
They do like it. They just want to be the ‘Fascists’.


5 posted on 02/20/2017 6:49:18 AM PST by griswold3
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I think the greatest irony is that I don’t believe the Liberals really care all that much about immigration. The big thing for the Liberals is always abortion. Trump is pro-life and this scares the Liberals.

So, the Liberals, who have killed about 50 million babies, think that their funtime may be in jeopardy. And the guy who wants to begin limiting the murder of millions of innocents? Well, they brand him as Hitler.

Rational thinking is not their strong suit.


6 posted on 02/20/2017 6:49:38 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

>>I am stunned by the number of Liberals I meet who truly DO BELIEVE that Trump is Hitler.
>>I mean.....do they have any idea of the things Hitler actually did??

They don’t teach History any more in the public schools. Just like they don’t teach math or cursive. It’s all political propaganda all the time. So the answer to your question is: No, they don’t have any idea of the things Hitler actually did, they only know that he was ‘double plus ungood’.


7 posted on 02/20/2017 6:49:48 AM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~u/base/*)
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To: ClearCase_guy

And 25 to 30 million of the babies were likely baby girls too.


8 posted on 02/20/2017 6:54:06 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Didn’t Hitler round up and have executed many people who complained about him? Their complaints are the most crybaby things I have ever heard.


9 posted on 02/20/2017 6:56:19 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: detective; exDemMom

The real fascists in America are the liberals and their media as per this reply by exDemMom:

They use fascist tactics: intimidating and assaulting people, rioting and destroying property.

They promote the fascist ideology: suppressing freedom, of thought, speech and action while scapegoating anyone who does not support their agenda.

They engage in fascist rhetoric: claiming that whites, especially men, are the root of all problems, while hinting that they want to rid society of these “undesirable” people.

They call ordinary people who support the Constitution “Nazis” in an attempt to deceive us about their goals and ideology.

Why should anyone be surprised that the support for Trump just grows stronger the more that the left shows its true colors?

posted on 2/19/2017, 3:41:11 AM by exDemMom

http://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=3526716%2C6


10 posted on 02/20/2017 6:57:15 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Concerned trolls/NeverTrumpsters, don't know to celebrate winning as they buy into fake news!!!!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I mean.....do they have any idea of the things Hitler actually did??

OK, Mr. and Ms. Liberal, how many of YOU has Trump...excuse me, PRESIDENT Trump...sent to extermination camps? Oh and in case you've forgotten, Canada is that-a-way!

11 posted on 02/20/2017 7:00:16 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That’s projection for you

Obama’s underground army of destructive obstructive protest groups is much more akin to the moves of the nazi movement

Why shouldn’t it be when old time nazi sympathizer george Soros is the chess master

But hey keep calling trump and his 62 million supporters “fascists’”
When everyone is “ Hitler” no one is Hitler
It was the muslims who worked for Hitler and have always admired fascism
Now they are allies with the Jews and calling Trump a fascist


12 posted on 02/20/2017 7:03:07 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: detective
Progressive propagandists are following a strategic game-plan devised and initiated by Marxists upon seizure of Russia.

Marxist materialists utilized propaganda of the lie, re-education with major emphasis on Darwinism, demoralization, revision of history, and other confusion-inducing, mind-and-thought-control techniques in connection with brain-altering drugs, electro-shock therapy, terror, and other brutal measures to,

"...liquidate all expressions of individual identity in favor of an impersonal collective, communal consciousness." (The Book that Made Your World, Vishal Mangalwadi, p. 74)

Gnostic Progressive Leftists hate the very thought of the Triune God as their Father and seek escape to a nowhere land, an impersonal, collective communal unconscious where man as God's spiritual image-bearer, immutable truth, order, moral law, sexual ethics, authority, hell, heaven, angels, demons, meaning, and purpose do not exist. For these reasons and others, such as Original Sin and the two created sexes, they fiercely hate creation ex nihilo, and choose rather to embrace evolutionary and materialist and pantheist conceptions. The truth of this can be seen in the following quotes:

"The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics. He is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do, or why his friends should not seize political power and govern in the way that they find most advantageous to themselves. The voluntary...reasons for holding doctrines of materialism...may be predominantly erotic, as they were in the case of Lamettrie...or predominantly political as they were in the case of Karl Marx." (Aldous Huxley, "Ends and Means," p. 315, from Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control, E. Michael Jones, p. 27)

"...one belief that all true original Darwinians held in common, and that was their rejection of creationism, their rejection of special creation. This was the flag around which they assembled and under which they marched.... The conviction that the diversity of the natural world was the result of natural processes and not the work of God was the idea that brought all the so-called Darwinians together in spite of their disagreements on other of Darwin's theories." (One Long Argument, 1991, p. 99, Ernst Mayr (d. 2005), Professor of Zoology at Harvard University) "We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door." ("Billions and Billions of Demons," Richard Lewontin, PhD Zoology, Alexander Agassiz Research Professor at Harvard University)

13 posted on 02/20/2017 7:03:16 AM PST by spirited irish
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To: detective

Liberalism/progressivism is at heart a lie, and all they push are lies. That’s why truth to them is like salt to a leach - totally incompatible.

They hate, yet call us the haters. They think constantly in terms of race and gender, yet call us racists and sexists. They tell women how to live and what to think, yet say we wage war with women. They tell us not to interfere in education, yet use our schools to indoctrinate our precious children. They sell affordable, yet deliver unaffordable. They praise democracy, yet overturn our votes. They speak of love, yet wantonly murder our most innocent and defenseless. They preach separation of church and state, yet push through laws limiting religious freedom.

Liar, thy name is liberal. Persecutors, thy name is progressive. Demon, thy name is Democrat.

Evil exists. Believe it.


14 posted on 02/20/2017 7:06:10 AM PST by polymuser (There's a yuuuge basket of deportables.)
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To: detective

We are Socialists, we are enemies of today’s
capitalistic economic system for the exploitation
of the economically weak, with it’s unfair salaries,
with it’s unseemly evaluation of a human being
according to wealth and property instead of
responsibility and performance, and we are all
determined to destroy this system under all conditions.

Does this Sound like Bernie, Hillary, or College Kids??


15 posted on 02/20/2017 7:32:39 AM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: detective
Yes, loyal Americans who want to continue to live as their forebears, in the land their forebears developed in a spirit of liberty, are the target of a Leftist media. Trump is the furthest thing from a fascist, in the White House, since Reagan.

Fascism is a totalitarian movement of the center. While it is not as extreme as the Leftist movements, Communism & National Socialism, it increases the power of Government in an unacceptable manner. A President who promises to restore American values is the furthest thing from any of the Totalitarian movements.

Trump's appointment of a Secretary of Education, who is pledged to break the centralized control of public education, is the exact opposite of a fascist. Trump's effort to rescue America's patients from Obamacare, is the exact opposite of what a fascist would do.

On the other hand, in adopting the big lie technique, David Brooks shows that he is quite comfortable with the tactics of the great totalitarian movements of 20th Century Europe. His credibility is falling through the floor.

16 posted on 02/20/2017 7:33:24 AM PST by Ohioan
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To: detective
The genuine fascists in this country are on the Left.

Goebbels would be proud of this propaganda smear campaign.

17 posted on 02/20/2017 7:44:57 AM PST by Gritty (Appeasing Islamic terrorists doesn't work, never worked, and will never work.- Daniel Greenfield)
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To: Morpheus2009

People who complained about Hitler were on the next east bound train to the Russian front.


18 posted on 02/20/2017 7:47:34 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Grandpa Dave,

Thank you so much for helping to spread my observation.

I think that if we keep hitting those who try to discredit us by calling us these names with the truth of what those names mean, it will defang their efforts to delegitimize us.


19 posted on 02/20/2017 8:21:53 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: detective
[t]he word fascism now has no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable.

George Orwell, 1946

20 posted on 02/20/2017 8:55:09 AM PST by dirtboy
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