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hedgehog

(36,286 posts) Thu Dec 10, 2015, 12:06 PM Dec 2015

Trump is OK because they called Reagan a fascist too?!?! [View all]

I vaguely recall Reagan being called a Fascist because of how he handled student demonstrators on state campuses. I don't recall it being a common label. Yet someone on Diane Rehm this morning was defending Trump with that meme.

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Trump is OK because they called Reagan a fascist too?!?! [View all] hedgehog Dec 2015 OP

Every republican for the last 40 years has been called a fascist by someone. hughee99 Dec 2015 #1

Then when the wolf actually does come calling, no one pays attention to the warning. hedgehog Dec 2015 #3

Oh yeah. Fascism is an ideology conservatives love. Lint Head Dec 2015 #2