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Yes, It’s Fascism (www.theatlantic.com)

submitted 4 months ago by CubitOom@infosec.pub to c/usa@midwest.social

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Over Trump’s past year, what originally looked like an effort to make the government his personal plaything has drifted distinctly toward doctrinal and operational fascism. Trump’s appetite for lebensraum, his claim of unlimited power, his support for the global far right, his politicization of the justice system, his deployment of performative brutality, his ostentatious violation of rights, his creation of a national paramilitary police—all of those developments bespeak something more purposeful and sinister than run-of-the-mill greed or gangsterism.

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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For another, the term has been overused to the point of meaninglessness, especially by left-leaning types who call you a fascist if you oppose abortion or affirmative action.

jesus fucking christ, two sentences in and I can already tell the author is an insufferable prick.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Well no shit.