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Since Gen. Mark Milley was quoted as saying Donald Trump is “fascist to the core,” a term avoided by top members of the Democratic Party is suddenly everywhere.

  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee
    77·
    1 month ago

    Well he supports Nazis and wants to be a dictator on day one. Kind of hard not to call him a fascist.

  • psvrh@lemmy.ca
    31·
    1 month ago

    I’m a Canadian who just finished a business trip to the Midwestern US.

    I was amazed at the number of signs for Republicans imploring voters to save America from communism by voting R.

    I think it’s beyond time that Democrats call them fascists, because Republicans fucking are, especially since the other common signs I saw talked about the radical groomer trams agenda.

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    23·
    1 month ago

    Better late than never.

    And since the election is in two and a half weeks, while the average American’s goldfish political memory is like 3 weeks, perfect time to be plastering it everywhere.

  • P_P@lemm.eeEnglish
    151·
    1 month ago

    PSA: Fascists and communists hate each other. Makes sense Republicans would hate communism so much.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    131·
    1 month ago

    I don’t think that word means much beyond “bad guy who wants to oppress you” to the average American today, although using it to describe a political opponent would have been outrageous just a few presidential elections ago. Trump has been using it for a while without any backlash.

    “Every time the radical left, Democrats, Marxists, communists and fascists indict me, I considered it a great badge of honor,” Mr. Trump said in February, and not for the last time.

    Is there anyone whose mind isn’t already made up who will be swayed by the word “fascism”? That’s not a rhetorical question. So much of what I see from both parties sounds like preaching to the choir but I genuinely don’t know what they could say that wouldn’t sound like that.

    • P_P@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      1 month ago

      “Every time the radical left, Democrats, Marxists, communists and fascists indict me, I considered it a great badge of honor,” Mr. Trump said in February, and not for the last time.

      Tell me you don’t know what any of those words mean without telling me you don’t know what any of those words means.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 month ago

        “Every time the bad guys indict me, I considered it a great badge of honor,”

        That’s all it means to him and his audience. That clear it up?

        You’re putting thought into propaganda that requires no thought. Turn off your brain if you want to understand it.

  • WrenFeathers@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 month ago

    I find that calling a thing what it actually is reduces the need to go outside of the confines of reality to describe it accurately.

    I call Trump a fascist because he fits the definition perfectly. If he didn’t, I’d call him something else.

  • index@sh.itjust.works
    56·
    1 month ago

    USA is currently backing israel fascist government and various dictatorships around the planet like saudi arabia. I guess part of the reluctance comes from that if they start calling their colleagues fascist someone may point the finger at them.