...oh wait, I'm a student of history and actually know what the hell Fascism, Communism, Capitalism and so on are. I also love to unravel conspiracy theories which rely on making vague and sweeping comparisons as foundations for making specific horseshit accusations.
When someone tells me Trump is a Fascist, and then explains that he is very charismatic (like Hitler!) and his followers are very loyal (like Nazis!), and... er... border control is totally racist (like Nazi Germany!) (and also every other country in Europe at the time) (shut up we're on a roll here!)...
You see where this is going.
Literally every Republican President since and including Reagan has been called a Nazi, including the former Presidents currently embraced by the Democratic Party for their opposition to Trump. And you have Biden smilingly assuring us that there will be a peaceful transfer of power, so OBVIOUSLY Biden must be pro-Fascism, apparently. Either that, or he doesn't believe it himself despite using the "Nazis are very fine people" hoax repeatedly in his campaign speeches.
So, what IS a Fascist?
Most likely, the sort of person who thinks the First Amendment is an impediment to "combating disinformation" (John Kerry, former Democratic Presidential Candidate and current DNC superdelegate who helped install Kamala Harris despite her winning not a single vote in the "Democratic" Presidential Primary). It's DEFINITELY the sort of person who suggests that their political opposition needs to be rounded up and "re-educated" - a growing popular opinion amongst the sorts of folks in left-wing circles who believe freedom of speech should also be regulated by the government on social media. All in the name of fighting "disinformation", naturally.
Fascism doesn't even require racial hatred, although Hitler's specific brand did, since the "National" part was about treating every nation as its own race. To the Nazis, each "white nation" was its own race - the Germans, the English, the French, et cetera, and they believed in a form of Darwinism which applied specifically to the survival of nation-states. Italian Fascism, by contrast, included a third of Italian Jews as members of Mussolini's party, and Mussolini resultingly resisted Hitler's demands regarding racial segregation and elimination because it had the effect of setting his own political backers against him. This was a significant reason for how Italy split, socially, politically and even militarily, after the fall of Rome. If you think "fascism is when you don't like everyone with a different skin color", you're letting a lot of Nazis off the hook while putting a lot of people who fought them on it in their place.
Trying to equate securing the US border with "racism", especially to National Socialist levels, makes a Nazi regime of the entire anti-Nazi alliance of World War Two.
Because of these self-evident realities, we do NOT hear a clear argument about Trump being Fascist from the Left - we hear that he "secretly" believes things, or that things he has said in public "really" mean something more sinister. We are told of tangential things which are then connected to one another in the same exact manner as a Pepe Silvia meme, then told it's proof-positive of the MENACE this man is supposed to be.
If I bought into even half of what I get told about Trump, I'd have to reconsider the arguments made by Moon Landing Deniers and 9/11 Truthers because the same disconnected illogical nonsense is on display. And when I push back on it, I get the same response I do from UFO Nuts and Crop Circle Enthusiasts: repeated and heated demands for making the leaps of faith necessary to arrive at their own conclusions, and if I don't, [insert gratuitous insults here].
Sorry. I don't buy it.
Let me know when Trump starts talking about annexing other nations, or that a given race must be eradicated to save the world, or that nothing should be outside the State, all should be within the State, and nothing should be against the State - because THAT is Fascism... and the only people I hear pitching anything close to the latter bits are Democrats talking about "disinformation control".
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