The warning bell keeps clanging.

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
/10

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
/11

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
/12

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
/13

(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
/14

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.

William Lindsey :toad:

And an important piece of information we may need to assess why Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong blocked an editorial endorsing Kamala Harris: as Sewell Chan, previously an editor at Los Angeles Times, reminds us:

"Elon Musk … is friendly with Soon-Shiong — they are both South African-born billionaire entrepreneurs."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing #LosAngelesTimes #PatrickSoonShiong #ElonMusk
/15

Los Angeles Times editorials editor resigns after owner blocks presidential endorsement

Mariel Garza, the editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times, resigned on Wednesday after the newspaper’s owner blocked the editorial board’s plans to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president. “I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent,” Garza told me in a phone […]

Columbia Journalism Review (www.cjr.org)

William Lindsey :toad:

Endorsing Kamala Harris, The Guardian states that Harris Harris represents a hopeful future, while Trump will drag Americans back into a reactionary past.

Trump’s authoritarianism may be the end of US democracy, The Guardian concludes.

#KamalaHarris #Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #TheGuardian
/16

The Guardian view on the US presidential election 2024: a Democratic government is the one we need

Editorial: This election presents a critical choice. Do we embrace a hopeful future or retreat to a reactionary past? We’re backing Kamala Harris. She will unlock democracy’s potential, not give in to its flaws

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Mike Waghorne

@wdlindsy It would tell the world that the USA is now officially a fascist nation. No surprise there.

Green Roc Thoughts

@wdlindsy Trump scares me.

Hitler led people to allow and perform the murder of millions.

Trump in charge with his plans, would leave me to die, homeless and starving to death.

William Lindsey :toad:

@GreenRoc I think we have every right to be scared.

William Lindsey :toad:

@mikewaghorne I don't hear anyone who is issuing these warnings expressing surprise that fascist strands are woven into the culture of the US — as they are woven into the culture of many nations around the world, something we're having to face all over again as fascism emerges in one culture after another. People commenting from afar who imagine many Americans are naive about this aspect of our history and culture aren't listening carefully to many of us — who deserve support.

William Lindsey :toad:

@mikewaghorne Yes.

William Lindsey :toad:

@philip_cardella Yes, that's right. Trump didn't emerge suddenly and out of the blue, like Athena springing from the head of Zeus. A whole lot of Republicans for years now have set the stage for this emergence.

The problem is hardly Trump alone. It's many of us, the shocking percentage of us who now cheer when told he'll round up and deport millons of immigrants.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wood5y Thank you for pointing me to his site. I will read with interest.

William Lindsey :toad:

@philip_cardella Yes, I agree — see my response to your other good comment about this today.