It’s really kind of disconcerting seeing resist accounts and Blue waivers starting to try and claim what Trump and his people are setting up is a Soviet thing when the reality is, it’s a far right fascist thing. this isn’t communism This is fascism and it’s important you label it correctly.
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The Soviet Union is gone.
Russian Federation is Fascist.
Putin is a Fascist of the worst sort.
Putin is cheering everything Trump does.
Most governments for ~200 yrs have been oligarchies with varying degrees of fascism. The US is now becoming a repressive version of that, similar to the old USSR and Iron Curtain states.
Restoring equity in the US by going back to pre-1980 tax code would fix much.
No label will change that reality. Fortunately or unfortunately.
The historians usually fill in the gaps.
Democrats whining about “the rule of law” while republicans lay in shit and laugh will get us nowhere.
Also, totally agree that dems need to drop the expectation of norms and learn to play a dirtier, more aggressive game.
If it affects the wallet, it affects the vote. That’s the only game to be played.
Dems would be wise to lean into the kitchen table politic and let the legislation speak for the social issues. Language matters but so does efficacy.
My dad was projecting his fascism onto “communist” others. He’s not the only one
What Trump is doing is way closer to modern russia. With rampant nepotism and picking loyalists before competent people
That’s what i worry about with us. That so much trust in the gov. Has been sewn that we won’t be able to recover.
its def. good to inform them as clearly and as concise as possible of that distinction
"Fascism- A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism."
So in that sense, they're not that wrong...? Just leave out the Communist part.
Fascists don't want people feeling united; they want people subservient to the state. Nationalism isn't about PEOPLE. It's about the STATE.
Still is
Russia today is in the far right fascist thing column and they claim to be a free market democracy.
Weird how they routinely give Churchill a pass, isn't it?
And she voted Trump. Cognitive dissonance > education. 🤷
Anne Applebaum
Shared interests, shared tactics, shared values
I thought the Russian shit they were going on about was just more of the same calling Trump Putins bitch or something.
They’re smoking that good good if they really think he’s some secret commie haha