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Newsweek Asks ‘Is Trump a Fascist?’
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| 08/18/2015
| Walter Hudson
Posted on 08/18/2015 7:59:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Cowardly way to say what they believe: Trump is a fascist.
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posted on
08/18/2015 8:34:57 AM PDT
by
RetSignman
(Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
To: SeekAndFind
Someone should point Newsweak to the White House if they are looking for a fascist.
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posted on
08/18/2015 8:42:37 AM PDT
by
Cyclone59
(Where are we going, and what's with the handbasket?)
To: SeekAndFind
Inquiring minds want to know: is Newsweek an apologist for communist rat bastards and murderous will to power driven sociopaths?
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posted on
08/18/2015 8:42:44 AM PDT
by
Noumenon
(Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
To: SeekAndFind
Newsweek, a shadow magazine. Undead and Zombie-like...
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posted on
08/18/2015 8:54:02 AM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
To: SeekAndFind
A better question is “Is Hillary A Criminal”?
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posted on
08/18/2015 9:02:20 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Research facilities aren't using two million pounds of dead babies a year. Who's got the rest ?)
To: GOPJ
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posted on
08/18/2015 9:04:05 AM PDT
by
timestax
(American Media = Domestic Enemy)
To: SeekAndFind
A lot of ignorant or intellectually shallow people out there equate fascism entirely with National Socialism. No serious person thinks Trump is Hitlerite. But does Trump pose a risk of fascism as a political strongman, not famous for a principled approach to matters, coming to power riding a wave of popular exasperation, who’s intent on a program of national greatness and impatient of constitutional limits? It’s not an unreasonable thing to worry about.
Before anyone objects: Obama is contemptuous of Constitutional limits, but he isn’t fascist because he’s an internationalist — not interested in national greatness — and because his political philosophy is highly principled (not moral — principled. He believes and desires certain things and knows precisely what they are.) President Reagan did believe in national greatness, but he respected the Constitution. He too knew what he stood for, and was not in it for personal power.
I do not trust Trump and don’t expect to be supporting him.
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posted on
08/18/2015 9:10:36 AM PDT
by
Romulus
To: SeekAndFind
"Whereas the left has long attacked bourgeois institutions like family, church and property, fascism has made its peace with all three. It (very wisely) seeks political strategies that call on the organic matter of the social structure and inspire masses of people to rally around the nation as a personified ideal in history, under the leadership of a great and highly accomplished man."
Family, church, and property are "bourgeois" institutions? Only for a Marxist such as the author, who seems to view all three as bad and therefore dispensable. As for the rest of the quote, it applies to no politician as much as it does to Obama, who has tried to co-opt all institutions of society in the service of the government.
To: SeekAndFind
"They say some true things, boldly, and conjure up visions of national greatness under their leadership. Theyve got the flags, the music, the hype, the hysteria, the resources, and they work to extract that thing in many people that seeks heroes and momentous struggles in which they can prove their greatness
"
All of that applies much more to Obama than to Trump.
To: SeekAndFind
The Washington GOP Elite are the ones running a fascist cartel.
Looks like textbook politics to slander your opponent with accusations mirroring your own weaknesses.
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posted on
08/18/2015 9:19:17 AM PDT
by
o2bfree
(It would save $Trillions if the GOP Establishment would just drop dead. :-)
To: SeekAndFind
Like Time, NW is stumping along looking for a place to collapse and die.
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posted on
08/18/2015 9:38:29 AM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: SeekAndFind
Obama is a fascist. Trump is a populist riding the wave.
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posted on
08/18/2015 9:39:58 AM PDT
by
jwalsh07
To: SeekAndFind
Is Obama a Muslim and a Communist?
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posted on
08/18/2015 9:40:42 AM PDT
by
Calpublican
(Republicans fought slavery!!Now the Party stands for nothing!!!!!!)
To: timestax
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posted on
08/18/2015 10:03:05 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(School-to-prison pipeline means gentle giants can choke and beat all the teachers they want.Greenfie)
To: SeekAndFind
If Trump was a fascist you wouldn’t be allowed to ask that question unless you liked picking the weevils and maggots out of your gruel, sleeping in huts with 99 other prisoners and performing back-breaking manual labor in the hot sun 14 hours a day under the watchful eyes of the national police.
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posted on
10/01/2019 10:56:37 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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