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  • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    8 days ago

    Trump could do it because he’s a fascist - he wants to discard democracy. A healthy system would have checked him not just then, but barred him from running again. We haven’t had a healthy system in a long time.

    Trump himself isn’t fascist. Though he’s surrounded by them and I do fear them.

    At a minimum, we need to discard useless language. “Fascist” failed to work in this election. Its been overused and/or the Republicans have built up mental defenses against it. It always was a bit of a stretch argument as the NeoNazi group is constantly berated even by Republicans.

    The correct word is likely Authoritarian Social Darwinists (which is close to fascism in many important ways, including racism, superiority, smugness, purity of gene pools, etc. etc.). But I’m thinking its time we discarded “Fascist” and seriously moved forward and try to advance our linguistic political tools.

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
      7·
      7 days ago

      It doesn’t matter what you call them, they’ll take that and wear it proudly. They have to publicly swear their allegiance to the in-group.

      Hillary was right to call them deplorables.

      Biden was right to call them garbage.

      Godwin was right to call them Nazis.

      Everyone was right to call them fascists.

      They do not care.