It is false to write of Trump’s behavior as not being fascist because he has not created concentration camps. Neither did Mussolini, Duterte, Pétain, Putin, or Quisling. McCarthy did not get the chance and for that I am grateful to the patriotic Americans who stood up to “uncle Joe.&#[...]
Posts Tagged ‘neofascism’
November 19th, 2018 - 1:20 am § in Foreign Affairs, Hypocrisy
Trumpism is Fascism
March 11th, 2018 - 10:09 am § in Donald Trump
Who Is John F. Kelley? Why does he frighten me?
The rumors are that John Kelley will be fired. I do not know what to think that means. The appointment of John F Kelley as Trump’s chief of staff frightened me. The job of chief of the WH staff is not in the Constitution. In fact the founders were afraid of having generals run the […][...]
November 8th, 2017 - 12:57 am § in Misc.
Neofascism: 355 Days Post Election
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.” — Hannah Arendt, “The Origins of Totalitarianism” (1951)[...]
November 4th, 2017 - 5:22 am § in America
Weimar Republic: How Hitler Came to Power
“It is ironic that while the democratic system itself became discredited, the radicalised mass electorate which remained in being switched its support to anti-democratic extremist parties of the left and the racist-nationalist right. While it is not technically correct to argue that Hitler was[...]
October 24th, 2017 - 1:31 am § in America
TRUMPISM: Walled Communities
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Some upper-income Texans are headed down below, not Australia, but below the surface. An investor group is planning for a doomsday scenario by building a $300 million luxury community replete with underground homes. There will also be air-lock blast doors designed for peop[...]
Alt Right Antisemitism
“Trying to create a global, manipulative Jewish monster which can be blamed for all the evils and problems” Demonization of George Soros throughout Europe recalls anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of yore *** HAARETZ.COM[...]
May 18th, 2017 - 8:40 am § in Donald Trump
American Neofascist Appointed as High Official Over Internal Police Force
There is good reason to be frightened of David Clark. Mr. Clarke will serve under another Trump appointee, the former Commandant of Guantanamo, General Kelley. These Trumpers will oversee the US’ first internal security police force. One of the central tenets of the US Constitution was[...]
May 18th, 2017 - 1:20 am § in The Ave Scene
Big Brother, the Alt Right, Comes to Seattle
Sinclair Broadcast Group has acquired Tribune Media for approximately $3.9 billion, a deal that will bring more than 200 television stations across the country under one owner. For Seattle, this would mean KOMO TV, channel 4, as well as KCPQ-Fox, channel 13, under one boss … the far right S[...]
May 17th, 2017 - 12:58 am § in Misc.
Is This Germany’s Le Pen?
Alice Weidel’s involvement with Germny’s right wing Alternative for Germany is hard to explain. How can a lesbian woman, Fpmer economist at Goldman Sachs. raising two children together with her partner even bear the existence of a party that disparages gays and lesbians as an R[...]
When Neofascists Confer
How many of us remember that WWII in the Pacific began not with Pearl Harbor but with a conflict between the US and China over access to the South China Sea? While Trump twists, tevoes, and tweets, it looks like that the Philippines is making love with China and jointly carving up the South Chin[...]