Presidential rhetoric corresponds to presidential action; it precedes and defines it. What a candidate says on the campaign trail connects to what he (or she) will do in office. And if Trump has had a single consistent message, it is that he’ll use the violent arm of the state to cleanse the nation of “scum” and “vermin,” whether immigrants and refugees or dissenters and political opponents like Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi.

Americans who want to stop this — three things to do:

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    8 months ago

    If any Magoo apologizes for voting for him after he goes full Nazi I hope every one of us will tell them to fuck right off or preferably punch them in the face. I have no sympathy for a piece of shit that refuses to listen to anyone other than their favorite propagandist until it hurts them personally.

    Fucking selfish ignorant cunts the lot of em.

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    It is simply extraordinary that the nation’s top general would tell anyone, much less one of the most famous reporters in the world, that the former president of the United States was a “fascist” — a “fascist to the core,” even — and a threat to the constitutional order. There is no precedent for such a thing in American history — no example of another time when a high-ranking leader of the nation’s armed forces felt compelled to warn the public of the danger posed by its once and perhaps future chief executive.

    Yeah, it is extraordinary that this person would say it to that person, but Trump’s fascism has been glaringly obvious since he ran in 2016: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-scholar-of-fascism-sees-a-lot-thats-familiar-with-trump

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      If only some group of people who were against fascism were loudly warning about the signs a decade ago and how we needed to band together and stomp out the embers before they became flames. If only a group like that existed surely they would have been listened to . . . /s

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        8 months ago

        Look bro. The billionaires and corporations require that line goes up.

        Issues like “imminent fascist dictatorship” and “genocidal terrorists seizing control of the most advanced surveillance apparatus in history” are all secondary to line goes up…

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      Yes, a friend and I sat in a bar in late 2015 and went through the various definitions of fascism on Wikipedia and compared them to trump. It was a shocking nine years ago. By now we’re numb to it. The man is surely a fascist. Then and now.