Discussion of the overt fascism now promoted openly by one of the two major parties in the US continues — because of course.

William Lindsey :toad:

"Trump is what a Fascist demagogue looks like in 2024 America, and Trumpism aims to defeat our democracy and establish a form of governance that would have strong similarities with Fascism as well as other experiences of authoritarianism. Those are the stakes of this election."

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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William Lindsey :toad:

Robert Reich:

"Trump’s closing argument of the 2024 election is full-throated fascism."

Reich notes that fascism is different from and more dangerous than authoritarianism and has five key elements, "all of which are now central features of what Trump is offering voters:

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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Trump’s closing argument: full-throated fascism

Friends,

(robertreich.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

1. The rejection of democracy, the rule of law, and equal rights under the law, in favor of a strongman.

2. The galvanizing of popular rage against political opponents.

3. Nationalism based on a dominant “superior” race and historic bloodlines.

4. Extolling brute strength and heroic warriors.

5. Disdain of women and fear of non-standard gender identities or sexual orientation.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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Trump’s closing argument: full-throated fascism

Friends,

(robertreich.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"I long resisted the use of the word fascist to describe Trump. But almost a year ago, I came to agree with Milley that Trump is through-and-through a fascist."

~ Tom Nichols

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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The General’s Warning

Mark Milley said that Donald Trump is a fascist, a new book reports.

The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"He is not only unhinged in his narcissistic self-obsessions, a problem which itself renders him unfit for office; he is also an aspiring dictator who demands that all political life centers on him. He identifies his fellow Americans as 'enemies' because they are of a different race, national origin, or political view. And he has threatened to use the powerful machinery of the state and its military forces to inflict brutality on those fellow citizens."

#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofHate
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William Lindsey :toad:

"After a decade, Democrats and corporate media have finally started to use the correct language to describe the ideology of a twice-impeached, criminal rapist and his MAGA cult. ...

MAGA has three major ingredients, which include White Supremacy, Christian Nationalism, and Authoritarianism."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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Democrats Are Finally Using The "F" Word: Fascism

It's time for Democrats and corporate media to loudly, openly, and consistently use the word fascism to describe the threat of Donald Trump and MAGA.

(thelefthook.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"I’ll also add a dollop of greed, hatred of Impossible burgers, and hypocrisy. The gumbo soup that houses all of them is known as fascism. ...

In America, fascism has gone mainstream thanks to Donald Trump…."

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Former President Trump added to a baseless conspiracy theory he's peddled about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs during a Univision Noticias town hall in Doral, Florida, on Wednesday.

Why it matters: After Trump and other Republicans amplified the false rumors that began in Springfield, Ohio, and spread online, residents in the community faced security threats.

Still, Trump and his allies have doubled down….."

~ Rebecca Falconer

#Trump #immigrants
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Just a moment...

(www.axios.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"A sheriff in Tennessee on Wednesday said witnesses reported seeing a group of armed people harassing hurricane relief workers in his county last weekend.

Carter County Sheriff Mike Farley told The Associated Press (AP) that no arrests were made, but witnesses said they saw FEMA workers in some type of altercation with armed individuals."

~ Jon Jackson

#Trump #fascism #violence #disinformation #lies #FEMA
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Tennessee sheriff says witnesses saw armed group harassing FEMA workers

Carter County Sheriff Mike Fraley said witnesses felt the armed group was wanting to cause trouble for the relief workers.

Newsweek (www.newsweek.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"William Jacob Parsons, who was arrested Saturday on charges of making threats against Federal Emergency Management Agency employees, is publicly defending alleged actions that disrupted the agency’s efforts to help Hurricane Helene victims. …

Parsons said he was motivated by social media reports claiming that FEMA was withholding supplies from hurricane victims in western North Carolina."

~ Maxine Joselow and Samuel Oakford

#Trump #disinformation #lies #FEMA
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/10/16/fema-threats-arrested-hurrricane-helene/

William Lindsey :toad:

"Three out of four election officials say that threats to them have increased; in some states, the danger will be just as bad the day after the election as it was the day before, or maybe even worse."

~ Anne Applebaum

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #threats #ElectionInterference
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A Citizen's Guide to Defending Democracy

What you can do, NOW

(anneapplebaum.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"With less than a month to go before the 2024 election, fear among election workers is palpable. Statistics show that threats to local election officials are surging, up 73 percent since the same time in 2022."

~ Kim Wehle

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #threats #ElectionInterference
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‘We’re Going to Hang You’: Threats to Election Workers on the Rise

And the threats—which endanger our democracy—are overwhelmingly coming from one side.

(www.thebulwark.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"CBS also interviewed Kim Wyman, a top election official at the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA), who said that she’s received threats like 'we’re going to hang you' and 'I hope somebody puts a bullet in your head.'”

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #threats #ElectionInterference
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Mass deportations, using a 151-year-old law as a national abortion ban, privatizing the National Weather Service, sending the military after the 'radical left': These are some of the policies, proposed by Trump or his supporters, that have made headlines in recent months."

~ Heather Souvaine Horn

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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How Trump’s policies would affect your food

A weekly reckoning with...

(newsletter.tnr.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"But in the past week, reporters have increasingly been looking into the ways that Trump-proposed policies could have far-reaching effects on another big part of the country: its food supply.

Trump’s anti-immigration policy is the most obvious example. 'The role of immigrants in the American food system is difficult to overstate,' Frida Garza and Ayurella Horn-Muller write for Grist and El País."

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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MoiraEve

@wdlindsy Most Western governments do not appear to think of themselves as being at war with Russia. Russia, however, is at war with the West. “That’s for sure—we are saying that openly,” the Russian representative to the United Nations recently declared. trump—a presidential candidate—declares himself “smart” for working w/ Putin to undermine American values, and is openly a fascist. #VoteBlue

William Lindsey :toad:

Who will do all their work when they round up the immigrants and deport them? I keep asking myself. Have they really thought through what they're proposing to do to THEMSELVES as they vent their hate for a targeted minority community?

This is the problem with bigotry and hate: it makes people drunk, as it were, drunk with elation at finally being able to show open contempt for people they despise.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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William Lindsey :toad:

And in intoxicating themselves with that unholy elation, they blind themselves to the harm that they always do to THEMSELVES by venting hatred against targeted minority groups.

Heather Souvaine Horn (see /16) notes that rounding up and deporting millions of immigrants would have devastating effects on the US food supply.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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William Lindsey :toad:

It would affect US. It would seriously affect the very people jubilant about the idea of deporting millions of Americans.

I think about this as my husband and I walk daily past the house of an extremely rich Republican neighbor who had Trump signs in front of her house in 2016 and 2020, though I see none this year. Maybe they're still to come.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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William Lindsey :toad:

As we walk past her house daily, we often see crews of gardeners working in her beautiful gardens. They are ALL Hispanic men. Or we see a car full of Hispanic women parking, the women getting out of the car with cleaning supplies to go into the huge mansion and clean it.

My spouse makes a point always of stopping to talk to these folks in Spanish, greeting them, talking about the weather, asking how they are.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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