The warning bell keeps clanging.

William Lindsey :toad:

The warning bell keeps clanging. Many of us are bored at hearing the repeated clangs.

This underscores a central revelation of this election: given the chance to choose fascism, eyes wide open, a significant proportion of Americans say, "Bring it on."

So he talks about Hitler with admiration? So what? What's a little infatuation with Hitler, after all?

We Americans are having to face some ugly truth about ourselves as this election nears.

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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William Lindsey :toad:

As Dan Rather notes, "a who’s who of Republican officials from the Trump administration and many of the Pentagon’s top brass" have now warned us that the man is "unfit to serve."

Rather asks,

"if Trump should win, what would that say about our country?"

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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Unfit to Serve

Period.

(steady.substack.com)

Steve Woods

@wdlindsy I hope the courts come down hard on Musk's election bribery.

#MakeAmericaGrateAgain

William Lindsey :toad:

Count New Hampshire governor Sununu among the Americans who want to shrug at Trump's infatuation with Hitler: asked about this yesterday on CNN, Sununu shrugged and said extremism is just "baked into" Trump.

But so what?

Heather Cox Richardson highlights this statement by Sununu:

“If we can get a Republican mindset out of Washington, we need that culture change.”

Trump loves Hitler? Trump's a fascist? So what?

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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October 23, 2024

The struggle over whether the U.S.

(heathercoxrichardson.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"On Wednesday, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu dismissed Trump's praise for Hitler’s generals as a fact that is 'baked in' to the election results. ...

If Donald Trump wins, it will be in large part because wealthy business leaders (like Soon-Shiong) and spineless politicians like Chris Sununu put their political and monetary fortunes ahead of the democracy that allowed them to succeed. Shame, shame, shame!"

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Republicans #fascism
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We have been warned.

October 24, 2024

(roberthubbell.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"This is the time for political courage.

Instead, America’s highest-profile business leaders — Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase; Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft; and Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway — are displaying political cowardice."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #EconomicElites #CorporateLeaders #JamieDimon #WarrenBuffett #BillGates #Hitler
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Political cowardice in the C-suites

Jamie Dimon, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett have spoken out on everything else but are afraid to come out against Trump. They are relinquishing whatever claims they had to leadership in America.

(robertreich.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"I hope that many of the people now supporting Trump will have an attack of conscience on their way to their polling station. But as Trump’s running mate, J. D. Vance, once wrote for The Atlantic, Trump is 'cultural heroin,' and the hard choice of civic virtue will never match the rush of racism, hatred, and revenge that Trump offers in its place."

~ Tom Nichols

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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Trump’s Depravity Will Not Cost Him This Election

Many Americans know exactly who Trump is, and they like it.

The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"Trump's embrace & praise of Hitler should have been the breaking point for the GOP, but instead they've decided to go all in."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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Never Go Full Hitler

Trump's embrace & praise of Hitler should have been the breaking point for the GOP, but instead they've decided to go all in. We've officially reached the bottom, and none of it should be normalized.

(thelefthook.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"It needs to be emphasized at every opportunity that the Republican currently running to be president of the United States is on the side of the Nazis whom we sacrificed so much blood and treasure to defeat in World War II. It’s devastating that this tragic truth is not enough to render Donald unacceptable to every single American—or, indeed, no elected Republcans."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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We Can't Pull Punches--He's a Fascist

Evening dispatch

(www.marytrump.org)

William Lindsey :toad:

"Trump’s admiration for Adolf Hitler may be the clearest expression of how profoundly unsuited he is to ever come near our White House again."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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Admiring Hitler Is Disqualifying. Period.

Sixteen million Americans fought against fascism and the Nazi regime to secure freedom and democracy. We have a duty to defeat this candidate for president who rejects our basic values.

(www.americaamerica.news)

Philip Cardella

@wdlindsy there's been a tension within the Republican Party since the NINETEEN twenties and especially with the election of FDR in 1932.

The Republicans who loved tarrifs (the lot HCR talks about a lot) freaked out when FDR moved the country away from tariffs and towards a fairer tax system that helped most (white) Americans. Some of them fully embraced Hitler, chief among these people, Henry Ford.

Other Americans liked fascism for the same reason some Germans did: grievance and violence.

William Lindsey :toad:

"A fat, lazy, incurious fascist is still a fascist."

~ Daniel Drezner

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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The Evidence for Trump's Fascism Is Overwhelming

A fat, lazy, incurious fascist is still a fascist.

(danieldrezner.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

Jeff Sharlet looks at the term "sanewashing," which Parker Molloy has popularized to characterize how the corporate media treat Trump, and says,

"I think Parker would agree with this; It’s fascist-washing."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing
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Jeff Sharlet on ‘Sanewashing’ and Fascism

Nonfiction writer Jeff Sharlet joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss how mainstream media outlets sanitize Donald Trump’s rhetoric in their reporting rather than straigh…

Literary Hub (lithub.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"No one else in modern politics has been given more leeway for aberrant behavior than Trump."

~ Renée Graham

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing
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The media’s toxic affair with Trump - The Boston Globe

Call it normalizing or "sanewashing," but covering the former president as if he’s an ordinary nominee is journalistic malpractice.

BostonGlobe.com (www.bostonglobe.com)

Philip Cardella

@wdlindsy this subset of fascists and illiberals of other varieties has been inside the Republican Party ever since.

They've never taken over before now, though since Reagan they've gained more and more control of the Party. Gingrich, though not a fascist, helped with this. Bush Jr too. Limbaugh of course, who was as much about the "entertainment" as anything was a big role player. Kochs too. And then came actual corpratists with open fascists sympathies like Leo and Musk.

William Lindsey :toad:

"Mariel Garza, the Los Angeles Times' editorials editor, resigned yesterday after Patrick Soon-Shiong, the newspaper's billionaire owner, blocked the outlet’s decision to endorse Harris. This has further strained Soon-Shiong's already tense relationship with Times staff during a year marked by newsroom cuts and turmoil."

~ Brian Stelter

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing #LosAngelesTimes #PatrickSoonShiong
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(view.newsletters.cnn.com)

Steve Woods

@wdlindsy You might like the words of English author Michael Rosen, whose family were originally east European Jews.

Fascism: I sometimes fear...

I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-...

(michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"In a statement, the L.A. Times Guild said it is especially concerned 'that he is now unfairly assigning blame to Editorial Board members for his decision not to endorse.'"

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing
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Philip Cardella

@wdlindsy we've been headed towards the GOP openly praising Hitler for a century. The fascists in the party have run the non fascists out at this point.

And, it's very important to note, while the current neo fascism is an evolution of the interwar fascism of 100 years ago, the leaders of this movement are trying to recreate the exact same fascism of 100 years ago, only this time successful.

It's different but it's more the same than normal movement evolutions. Anyway...

Mike Waghorne

@wdlindsy Yes, but remember that Americans who died fighting Nazis were, in Trump's words, losers and suckers. So, emulating Hitler is just fine to Trump and the GOP. So, the GOP is now formally a Nazi party.