Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

Over Trump’s past year, what originally looked like an effort to make the government his personal plaything has drifted distinctly toward doctrinal and operational fascism. Trump’s appetite for lebensraum, his claim of unlimited power, his support for the global far right, his politicization of the justice system, his deployment of performative brutality, his ostentatious violation of rights, his creation of a national paramilitary police—all of those developments bespeak something more purposeful and sinister than run-of-the-mill greed or gangsterism.

  • Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    29·
    11 days ago

    Fascism is not a territory with clearly marked boundaries but a constellation of characteristics. When you view the stars together, the constellation plainly appears.

    Better late than never. If this is the mainstream opinion we might actually get mock trials when this is all over. Glimmer of hope; a light appearing at the end of a very long tunnel.

  • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
    122·
    11 days ago

    They still can’t accept that it always was, and was always going to be fascism.

    wHaT StARteD aS sOmEtHinG InNoceNt iS noW suDDeNlY aNd wItHoUt waRniNg FaSCism

    Still clowns.

    • bitwise@lemmy.ca
      1·
      11 days ago

      Pretending lets them profit every step of the way, while escaping responsibility when things collapse/recover.

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
    4·
    11 days ago

    Okay, so now that you’re accepting the obvious are you going to push for the only obvious solution to fascism?