Half of Americans see Donald Trump as a fascist: POLL

ABC News ^ | 10/25/2024 | Gary Langer Steven Sparks

[thegagline]

Half the country sees former President Donald Trump as a fascist, amplifying concerns raised in recent days by Vice President Kamala Harris and past members of Trump's own administration. Far fewer in a new ABC News/Ipsos poll level the same charge against Harris.

Nearly two-thirds also say Trump often departs from the truth, again more than say so about Harris. But Harris gets more criticism than Trump for pandering for votes by promoting policies she doesn't intend to carry out -- underscoring challenges for both candidates as the fur flies in their increasingly heated presidential race.

Responding to one of the more incendiary salvos, 49% of registered voters in the national survey say Trump is a fascist, defined as "a political extremist who seeks to act as a dictator, disregards individual rights and threatens or uses force against their opponents." Fewer than half as many, 22%, see Harris as a fascist by this definition.

Harris on Wednesday said Trump is a fascist, a week after agreeing with an interviewer that his campaign is "about fascism." A former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a former chief of staff to Trump and a former defense secretary in his administration have been quoted recently also as describing Trump as a fascist, and the White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday that President Joe Biden thinks so, too. Trump, for his part, repeatedly has called Harris a fascist, as well as a Marxist and a communist.

*** Perceptions of fascism are tied to partisanship: 87% of Democrats call Trump a fascist, compared with 46% of independents and 12% of Republicans. Harris, for her part, is seen as a fascist by 41% of Republicans, 20% of independents and 3% of Democrats. ***

[thegagline]

“ “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. ***It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Wrongly attributed to Goebbels but still on point

[Parley Baer]

“a new ABC News/Ipsos poll”

That is all you need to know about this story.

[no-to-illegals]

Fake News

[mykroar]

Sure, Jan.

[BradyLS]

Gee, I wonder who beat that idea into their heads? 🙄

[EvilCapitalist]

Now ask those same people to define what a fascist is.

[RoosterRedux]

Anyone who sees Trump as a fascist got that idea from the Democrats and their media lapdogs.

Chances are they can't even define "fascist."

[Frank Drebin]

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Beat an idea into a hard.

There iies the most fatal flaw of all humanity.

[MrRelevant]

Exactly

[plain talk]

Propaganda does work for a certain segment of the voters. Sad but true.

Unfortunately our side is saddled with morality and truthfulness

[Lod881019]

Keeping that Harris mojo going gag

[No name given]

How true.

[butlerweave]

Wasn’t a fascist, during his first term , all the democrats have left is name calling

[No name given]

Obviously.

[CommerceComet]

It would seem to me that the one who as governor asked his citizens to snitch on other citizens for not following his dumb covid restrictions would be the fascist but that’s just me, I guess.

[blackdog]

So....What is a fascist then?

[GOPPachyderm]

Right. How absurd.

[Reily]

90% of Americans can’t define fascism!

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Beat an idea into their heads.

Fatal flaw in the human design.