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"Right-wing strategist Steve Bannon, who once pledged to make the world 'as exciting as the 1930s,' promotes the ideas of the Italian Traditionalist Julius Evola, who wrote: 'We would like a more radical, more intrepid Fascism, a really absolute Fascism, made of pure force, inaccessible to compromise.”'
~ Janet Bufton and Tom G. Palmer
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism
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https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/your-comprehensive-guide-to-the-far
"Trump is running a fascist campaign, the most un-American in U.S. history. Below, I offer eight unofficial rules of American democracy that Trump has broken—rules it would have been unthinkable for an American politician to break before Trump arrived on the scene. If he wins despite doing all that, the system itself will break."
~ Nicholas Grossman
"At stake is nothing less that democracy itself.
Whether we will preserve the peaceful transfer of power or devolve into a white Christian nationalist oligarchy. Whether we will have rule by the people or rule over the people."
~ Jemar Tisby
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/heres-the-recording-from-preparing
"In an interview with Michael S. Schmidt of the New York Times published tonight, [General John] Kelly noted that he had decided not to speak out about Trump unless Trump said something deeply troubling or something that involved Kelly and was wildly inaccurate. For Kelly, Trump’s recent talk about the 'enemy within' was dangerous enough that he felt obliged to make a public comment."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"The retired U.S. Marine Corps general confirmed that Trump is 'certainly the only president that has all but rejected what America is all about, and what makes America America, in terms of our Constitution, in terms of our values, the way we look at everything, to include family and government—he’s certainly the only president that I know of, certainly in my lifetime, that was like that.'”
"Kelly added that 'in his opinion, Mr. Trump met the definition of a fascist, would govern like a dictator if allowed, and had no understanding of the Constitution or the concept of rule of law.'”
"Kelly’s comments, two weeks from Election Day, are the latest in a line of warnings from former Trump White House aides about how he views the presidency and would exercise power if returned to office.
In addition to the fascist comments, Kelly — who was Trump’s chief of staff from 2017 to 2019 — told The New York Times that the former president 'certainly prefers the dictator approach to government.'”
~ CNN
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #JohnKelly
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https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/22/politics/trump-fascist-john-kelly/index.html
"He also confirmed to The Atlantic that Trump had said he wished his military personnel showed him the same deference Adolf Hitler’s Nazi generals showed the German dictator during World War II, and recounted the moment."
"If Harris wins, it’s because just enough voters accept the rule of law and reality itself. That’s probably why we remain so nervous about the outcome. The election won’t merely determine the next president. It’ll define who we are as a nation."
~ Stephen Robinson
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/harris-trump-how-the-hell-is-this-close
"The mystery that will provide full employment for generations of historians is why so many Americans willingly embraced the con and spread the hate that fuels Trump's campaign."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/harriswalz-campaign-in-overdrive
"He has now gone all-out demagogue and promised his supporters that he would have no qualms about ordering our military to execute his opponents. Which has left men like John Kelly with few options but to be honest about who Trump is."
~ Brian Tyler Cohen
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism
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https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/leaving-it-all-on-the-field
"When you’re so undisciplined that you can’t control yourself for the final TWO WEEKS of the campaign, imagine if Trump was unburdened by another election, with his official immunity gifted from the Supreme Court he stacked, his brain cooked, all guardrails removed, and nobody to hold him accountable."
“It says everything you need to know about the U.S. media that Trump’s clown show at the McDonald’s gets more attention than his former defense secretary and chair of the Joint Chief of Staff warning that Trump is a dangerous fascist with no respect for democracy.”
~ Dean Baker quotes by Margaret Sullivan
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #fascism #media #MediaFail
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https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/a-media-call-to-action-fcb
@wdlindsy It's even hard to keep track on which former official has said which terrible things about Trump:
John F. Kelly, Chief of Staff: Trump meets the definition of a fascist.
Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Trump is fascist to the core and the most dangerous person ever.
James Mattis, Defense Secretary: what Milley said
Mark Esper, Defense Secretary after Mattis: Trump is unfit for office, a national security threat and a threat to democracy.
@wdlindsy@toad.social@Kraemer_HB It's hard, indeed. And none of this makes a dent in his cult followers, who seem to be at least a third and maybe more of Americans.
@wdlindsy I just read a psychological analysis about this cult and its mental dispositions. It said "only" around 10% of voters were Trump cultists. (So the rest of GOP voters are what?)
https://mastodon.social/@univienna@fediscience.org/113356217168600884
@Kraemer_HB 10% sounds like a very low calculation to me.
@wdlindsy That's what a cult wants. I don't remember who said things like 10 devout followers are better than 50 normal people. It might have been some Nazi.
Trump selected his followers for devoutness, that's the function of him requesting them to repeat any of his lies. This way they always have to avow to him being their saviour. (What I can't wrap my head around is religious Christians doing such oplenly blasphemous things.)
@Kraemer_HB "What I can't wrap my head around is religious Christians doing such oplenly blasphemous things."
And, yet, in the American context, there is a very long history of distorting and warping Christianity to rob it of its teachings critical of injustice and calling for solidarity with the poor. Christian leaders who defended slavery invented a peculiar form of Christianity to justify that immoral practice, and their thinking remains alive in the MAGA movement today.
@wdlindsy Is this invention of Christianity to justify slavery connected with Calvinism? I'm from a Calvinist region of Germany, and I often acknowledge US Evangelical thoughts that seem familiar.
@Kraemer_HB Calvinist theologians, as in Presbyterian divines at Princeton University, did play a major role in establishing that pro-slavery reading of the bible for the South.
@wdlindsy Thank you! I read "Great Awakening" in Wikipedia and come from there to "Pietism" (that was strong in my home region) and the "Charismatic movement" that sure had some influence on Trumps performance. One could say he is speaking in tongues these days when his followers believe he has something profound to say, and all other people find him rambling incoherently. The complex religious history of the US is very interesting for its influence on todays political phenomena.
@Kraemer_HB Yes, and in the US, a very rigid and retrogressive form of Calvinism is now ascendant in many quarters, pushed hard by a group who have been called the TheoBros, whose influence in evangelicalism in general is increasingly significant.