Re: #OscarsSoWhite, really?
Look, when I call Trump a fascist, I'm not trying to insult him. I'm just calling him like he very clearly is.
"Fascism" has many definitions. For instance, Umberto Eco lists 14 characteristics:
- "The cult of tradition" - four words, "Make America Great Again"
- "The rejection of modernism" - "global warming HOAX", removal of experts from council of advisors
- "The cult of action for action's sake" - as in, hastily and poorly written executive orders
- "Disagreement is treason" - "the dishonest media is a great danger to our country"
- "Fear of difference" - Google "Mohammed Ali Jr"
- "Appeal to a frustrated middle class" - "The forgotten man and woman will never be forgotten again"
- "Obsession with a plot and talking-up of an enemy threat" - "bad hombres", "figure out what's going on over there"
And so on. The man ticks at least 12 of the 14 boxes.
Or to consider another definition (Roger Griffin):
[F]ascism is best defined as a revolutionary form of nationalism, one that sets out to be a political, social and ethical revolution, welding the ‘people’ into a dynamic national community under new elites infused with heroic values. The core myth that inspires this project is that only a populist, trans-class movement of purifying, cathartic national rebirth (palingenesis) can stem the tide of decadence
Ernest Nolte:
"Fascism is anti-Marxism which seeks to destroy the enemy by the evolvement of a radically opposed and yet related ideology and by the use of almost identical and yet typically modified methods, always, however, within the unyielding framework of national self-assertion and autonomy."
Kevin Passmore:
Fascism is a set of ideologies and practices that seeks to place the nation, defined in exclusive biological, cultural, and/or historical terms, above all other sources of loyalty, and to create a mobilized national community. Fascist nationalism is reactionary in that it entails implacable hostility to socialism and feminism, for they are seen as prioritizing class or gender rather than nation.
Robert Paxton:
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity
Seriously, how can you claim he's anything but a fascist?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
