Oddbean new post about login | logout Zero anything that relates to Harris and “communist totalitarian” but everything that points to Trump wanting to be a fascist dictator. It’s not even close. Zoom into anything Trump does and says and you will see the obvious picture in front of you.
Wow
He must be reading legacy media
I don't think I've ever heard the accusation about Trump and fascism fully explained. The best I can figure, it's something like this: for many people fascism isn't the corporatism that Mussolini envisioned but rather fanatical racist nationalism. The tiny group of Americans who are KKK-style white nationalists probably support Trump. Therefore, Trump is a fascist. Something like that.
Amount many other things, if you just listen to Trump vilify “others” (esp non White people), and say they are running the country, and just replace those references with Jews, much sounds extremely similar to Hitler’s rhetoric. Hitler was a facist.
Fascism is a form of govt, not the description of the character of a politician. Also, in my experience, most politicians vilify groups of ppl. Not justifying that - it's why I dislike the lot of them. But which groups of ppl has Trump said are running the country? I hadn't heard that
Examples of Trump and fascism? I'm not a fan, and I don't think he did anything like "draining the swamp" the first time around, so if he wins I'm not holding my breath for any of his promises. But I don't understand the fascism accusations. Harris totalitarian leanings: she advocates controlling the press and speech; she proposes taxes on unrealized gains; she's pro-gun control (which sounds great to many folks until you realize how much local police forces have been militarized, and that she wants to control what citizens use, not what govt can use - so it's effectively a further centralization of tools of violence).