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When it comes to Trump supporters’ fascism, America cannot afford appeasement
Sacramento Bee ^ | JANUARY 10, 2021 | PAUL KRUGMAN

Posted on 01/11/2021 5:02:31 AM PST by artichokegrower

So, is it finally OK to use the F-word?

One shouldn’t use the term “fascist” lightly. It isn’t a catchall for “people you disagree with.” It isn’t even a synonym for “bad political actors.” Mitch McConnell’s brand of politics has, in my view, greatly damaged America; but cynical legislative maneuvers aren’t the same thing as threatening and encouraging violence, and I wouldn’t call McConnell a fascist.

Donald Trump, however, is indeed a fascist — an authoritarian willing to use violence to achieve his racial nationalist goals. So are many of his supporters. If you had any doubts about that, Wednesday’s attack on Congress should have ended them.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: fascism; krugman; trump
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To: RC one

Afraid not ace.

Fascism or corporatism is a system where the state bank, trade unions, and corporate management control industry.

Where you get “statism” from I don’t know since all forms of socialism aim for a stateless society in which the state has withered away.

Likewise all socialism aims for the abolition of capitalism.

Leftists claim fascism is “right wing” since Italy was a monarchy and in Europe right wing means monarchist.

Nazism and Leninism both eliminated unions, an essential element of fascism, and Nazi Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union all relied on the use of armed force.

The US being both anti-monarchist and capitalist is in no way “fascist”.


21 posted on 01/11/2021 7:01:19 AM PST by hank ernade (armchair macho bravado EverTrumper)
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To: hank ernade
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."

Bennitto Mussolini

22 posted on 01/11/2021 7:24:11 AM PST by RC one (Lying, cheating, deceiving & manipulating are as natural to Democrats as swimming is to fish.)
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To: artichokegrower

Liberals are totalitarianism thugs...

Krugman’s suspects the truth which is why he’s digging in for white liberal ‘elite’ thugs. He’s scared.


23 posted on 01/11/2021 7:32:31 AM PST by GOPJ (Seventy-three million citizens thought the election was rigged - enough to start a new party.)
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To: artichokegrower

One would think an economist would know that Fascism is kind of socialism featuring the blending of government power with the private sector, particularly the most powerful in the private sector, and that the work to increase the control of government and the power of the private side. It’s an unhealthy symbiotic relationship where each does the work normally forbidden to the other.

That is the very definition of the Democratic Party.

Tech deplatforms Trump and kills Parler, government gives them legal protection and gives them lucrative contracts. Fascism, Krugman should know.


24 posted on 01/11/2021 7:48:02 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: artichokegrower

Republicans must do what Ronald Reagan said, when dealing with leftist hippie/radicals in Berkeley, 1969 / 70:

NO MORE APPEASEMENT!!!!

And He Didn’t!!!! He busted their rotten asses!!!!


25 posted on 01/11/2021 8:50:39 AM PST by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
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To: artichokegrower

Donald Trump, however, is indeed a fascist — an authoritarian willing to use violence to achieve his racial nationalist goals


Sheesh! How many lies can Krugman fit in one sentence? He may have set a record.


26 posted on 01/11/2021 11:33:02 AM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv etc)
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To: artichokegrower

If President Trump and his 75 to 80 million American supporters really were fascist, wouldn’t Krudman already be dead?


27 posted on 01/11/2021 11:35:23 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: mewzilla

Interested in hearing Levin’s response. Something along the lines of “get off the phone you dope”?


28 posted on 01/11/2021 11:35:35 AM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv etc)
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To: Bogey78O

Fascism is LEFT wing. Assigning it to the RIGHT is part of the big lie.


29 posted on 01/11/2021 11:36:42 AM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv etc)
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To: artichokegrower
When it comes to Biden supporters’ communist totalitarianism, America cannot afford appeasement

Fixed it...

30 posted on 01/11/2021 11:42:03 AM PST by Magnatron
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