Donald Trump's fascism

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https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/fascism-donald-trump/32074/

Robert Harrington | 8:00 pm EDT September 4, 2020

When once asked why he robs banks, American career criminal Willie Sutton famously replied, “Because it’s where the money is.” We are amused by this because it’s honest. Sutton didn’t try to cloak his crimes in social commentary or blame his parents. So it should be with fascism. Now that it has made its way to America disguised as Republicanism we should begin to call it what it is. Fascism is no more an ideology than robbing banks. Just as robbing banks is a means to money, fascism is a means to power and nothing more. It is a tool used to inspire hate and fear so the tool user can acquire and hang on to power. Or as P. J. O’Rourke once put it, “Fascism is very much a mob movement."

It’s surprising how quick Republicans have been to tacitly admit this, so much so that they dispensed with presenting the American people with a platform at the Republican National Convention. To be sure, there are certain axioms upon which they try to hang their grab for power, such as the pro-life movement or the “religious freedom” movement.

But even they see the immediate hypocrisy inherent in the point. How does one defend the preservation of the life of a child while simultaneously putting children in cages or sending them back to school in the midst of a pandemic? And the religion they’re protecting for religious freedom has an embarrassing habit of talking a little too much about loving one’s neighbor.

It’s easier to dispense with all the inherent messiness of enunciating a manifesto and get right down to the point. Republicanism today is all about hate and cruelty and the emotions they inspire. They exploit those emotions by turning them into votes.

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1. All they need are a flag and a cross

to get away with it.

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2. Right

Sickening!