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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
@wdlindsy 
. It would define us as a nation too stupid, shallow, hubristic, cruel, destructive & self-destructive to lead in this world, or for decent people to bear living in. And I absolutely think most of us ARE decent, kind, law-abiding, responsible citizens, but if we don’t all rise up w/our votes against this existential threat & seriously address the systemic flaws in our society (politics, economics, media, etc) that allow & encourage such malignancy to flourish & spread, we are doomed.
@Laloofah Well-stated. I agree, though I wonder how many of us actually would be decent, kind, and law-abiding if push came to shove. The results of the Milgram experiment, which has repeated a number of times at different points in time and in different cultural settings, always with the same results, give me pause to think.
@wdlindsy I was referring to how I think most of us are in our current circumstances. When society breaks down & chaos reigns, I agree; most of us really don’t know how we’d respond to alien situations & experiences.
I 1st saw Milgram’s Obedience to Authority film in a college psych class, & it horrified us all, as it does most people. But I learned later the experiment isn’t free of controversy. I think you’ll find this interesting, if you’ve not read it (or similar):
https://www.npr.org/2013/08/28/209559002/taking-a-closer-look-at-milgrams-shocking-obedience-study
@wdlindsy@toad.social@Laloofah Thank you very much for the link. I'll read with interest. Have you seen the film "Experimenter" telling Milgram's story and starring Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder? I thought it was really great.
@wdlindsy You’re very welcome! And no, I not only haven’t seen that film, I’d never heard of it! So thank you for bringing it to my attention — I will be looking for it.
@Laloofah I think we watched it on Pay Per View, so that might be one place to find it if you have access to PPV (we no longer do, but find lots of good movies for free at both Tubi and Kanopy, the latter via our local library system).
@wdlindsy We only have Netflix & our library doesn’t have the DVD. I did find it on Hoopla, but am getting run ragged in electronic circles trying to add it to my new Hoopka account, so will have to try again later!