I can't wait to see where Boot, Schmidt, Flake, George Will and Joe Scarborough will be when Democrats become the party of free health insurance, free college, abolishment of ICE, unsecured borders, arbitrary increases in minimum wage and guaranteed government incomes.
If one looks at published definitions of Fascism, the one constant is that a Fascist state emerges and thrives when its government is enlarged and given every increasing powers over the lives of people. The is NOT the goal of the GOP. Republicans have long been the party of smaller government. The GOP has also long been the party which argues states should have more decision-making power relative to the federal govt., the reason being that a state is more in touch with the needs and goals of its individual citizens.
Trump is not deviating from this. He has an authoritarian personality based on a lifetime of being pretty much the sole decision maker. No corporate boards for him. But Trump is not pursuing a Fascist style of governance. Rather than expand, he is shrinking government, not even filling all previous positions. He is exploring ways to reduce our footprint in the world by shifting more responsibility on both ME nations to govern themselves and on NATO countries to pay more for their own defense.
Democrats and their media are being foolish to keep advancing the false narrative of Trump = Fascism.
It causes people to read about fascism for themselves. The more one reads, the more apparent it becomes that it's Democrats who have a fascist mentality. Dems want to enlarge government and it's Dems who keep trying to limit free speech, another characteristic of Fascism historically. |
