Quote (Mangix @ Mar 11 2020 09:42am)
Hes technically, at the moment, merely a right wing populist. Until he starts actively dismantling democracy, so that theres nothing stopping him, hes not actually a fascist. Probably why people have just been calling it Trumpism,
I think we'd need another full blown great depression for it to go that far.
ya that's kind of what im saying. in america a "fascist" isnt a fascist in fact. just as a "socialist" isn't a socialist, its all social.
America is a unique place with a unique legal code, unique gun environment, unique corporate lobbying meta, unique military industrial complex, and unique in many other ways. you can't add salt to acid and expect to get salt water.
but still, both sides want to malign the other side with labels that are in fact self owns once they justify them. force a progressive to back up an alarmist label of Trump and it applies directly to Bernie. force a conservative to justify their labels of Bernie and it applies to Trump. neither side wants this, they just wanted to get cheap wins off adverse labels.