Posted on 11/05/2018 11:46:48 AM PST by tcrlaf
As we approach the midterm elections, the Nuremberg-like atmosphere of Donald Trump rallies plus his flagrant abuses of power terrify his critics. They raise the question: Is Donald Trump a fascist?
There are two matters of fact regarding Donald Trump that are irrefutable. The first is that he is not a conservative but is, in fact, the direct adversary of all the core beliefs of Ronald Reagan. The second is that in terms of his politics, that is to say, his methods of obtaining and maintaining power, Trump has been a practitioner of both fascistic strategy and tactics.
Ronald Reagan was a follower of Edmund Burke, who deemed the preservation and respect for institutions as essential for the preservation of orderly democratic government. Trump, the anti-Ronald Reagan is on a mission to destroy our leading institutions, including the independence of the FBI and the Justice Department and the very existence of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Reagan was a follower of Adam Smith, who believed in free markets and free trade. Donald Trump is a foe of free trade, an advocate of tariffs and a leader of trade wars.
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Sainthood? How about a place on Mount Rushmore?
Not exactly the best method to try to establish one's conservative credentials. The only reason Bush was remotely tolerable to conservatives was that his last name wasn't Gore or Kerry.
Lol...he says that like it's some sort of irrefutable proof of his conservative creds. The Bush wing of the GOP would have us all believe that globalism = conservatism. Their game of deception is over, and they know it. Hence, we've been hearing the pathetic cries if a dying breed almost every day now. Steinberg's screed is just the latest.
Not really clever, since “Nuremberg” was the place where the trials were held, and not particulary noteworthy as a hotbed or birthplace of the socialist nazi organization in Germany.
Yep, cause somewhere along the way someone called them a fascist...and they knew it wasn’t a complement...but like you said they don’t really know what it means.
More Dr. Trump’s no. 45 Butt Hurt Salve is needed.
Right Alan?
5.56mm
Lol! What an unhinged loon. Hysterical.
A never-Trump republican telling people who to vote for? How quaint.
My recollection was Reagan wanted to close the Department of Education and reduce the EPA.
Nice to hear from somebody who nobody knew then, nobody knows now, and nobody gives a crap about his opinion.
The Butthurt is Real.
One could list many examples of their total disrespect for the very concept of a nation, starting with Austria & Checkloslovakia in 1938.
“Ronald Reagan was a follower of Edmund Burke, who deemed the preservation and respect for institutions as essential for the preservation of orderly democratic government. Trump, the anti-Ronald Reagan is on a mission to destroy our leading institutions, including the independence of the FBI and the Justice Department and the very existence of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).”
Our so-called “leading institutions” have become irreparably corrupt. They need to be dissolved and rebuilt.
Swineberg needs to read this little piece from 7/4/1776:
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation... Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES AND USURPATIONS, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under ABSOLUTE DESPOTISM, it is their RIGHT, it is their DUTY, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
The long train of abuses we have experienced in my lifetime FAR exceeds those of the American colonies. A second Revolution is justified. Donald Trump is not advocating this. He is the LAST and FINAL hope of the left (no, not the right) to AVOID armed conflict because many of us who voted for President Trump will NEVER submit to the tyranny of the left.
We are not going to allow the made-up rights of abortion and homosexual sex to trample the real, God-given rights of free speech and freedom or religion and other first and second amendment rights.
America will either accept President Trump as an olive branch of peace based on freedom, or America will have WAR.
The twerp calls Bob Wills and Joe Scarborough great Republicans. Plus calls for a Dem controlled Congress. He’s a POS.
then my eyes were opened and would never vote for a rat ever again.
Instead, he has railed against a paid off propaganda media posing as “press.”
Once you have that part wrong, it’s easy to get the whole thing wrong. When you call your sweet brown horse a fascist rainbow unicorn, you start by calling him rainbow colored. Once people buy that, you add the horn into your description. At that point, of course you can add fascist! Or homophobic! Whatever!
“Nuremburg-like atmosphere at Trump rallies.
Suck it, A-hole.
It is just a phrase they throw out to signify "bad".
It has nothing to do with actual facism.
Bush League Republicans MUST become extinct before the Republic does.
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