->The day he first announced that he was running for president and called Mexicans criminals and rapists.
So, him calling Mexicans an inaccurate and mean name made him a fascist? If Obama deported more harmless undocumented immigrants than Trump and if I'm Mexican and undocumented, then I'm thinking:
- "Mean name and higher odds of staying here vs nice name and higher odds of being deported? I'll take the former."
Mean names don't matter if they aren't coupled with mean policy (and in 2016; urban areas and the south west voted more blue than 2012, but mean names don't matter; mean actions do, which is why in 2020, non-tap dancing Hispanics turned out redder than 2016 as the rest of the country shifted blue once they lived through Trump and saw that Obama did it more.). They tended to respect Trump's honesty.
->The test of when such a label would apply is when the behavior is extreme.
I agree. But lets say 0 is as left as you can go and 100 is as right wing as you can go. Lets say 90 or higher is fascist and 10 or lower is communist. Why is it 90 and not 89 or 91? Conversely, why is 10 the communist marker and not 9 or 11? It's an arbitrary line at the end of the day. I'd rather label people's beliefs as, "Pro X" or, "Anti X" very specifically. If someone wants abortion illegal/legal, then I call them Anti (Abortion Legalization), Pro (Abortion Legalization). PAL and ANAL. Doing ANAL reduces abortion.
->When any Republican takes a position against him, he doesn’t respond by pleading his case and arguing why he is right and why his position is better for the people he purportedly serves, no, he responds by attacking them personally and threatening to primary them.
Trump did that with Cheney and Harris did it with RFK. Neither should have kicked them out. But every politician in the DEM or GOP primary that wasn't Trump or Biden/Harris takes a position against them (who's the better nominee). But both Trump and Biden are debate dodgers (ie, they don't defend their positions).
->All deportations are equally bad
This is just plain stupid. You might as well argue that all theft is equally bad, so the guy who once stole a candy bar and the guy who professionally robs banks are the same.
I would argue deporting a mass murderer is the same as deporting a harmless undocumented immigrant; the ladder should be left alone, and the former is useful because they have organs that can be harvested right after beheadings without painkillers to save black people's lives (and really anyone else that needs the organs).
->It’s built into human nature and can be exploited, that’s why fascism and authoritarian experts have been ringing the alarm bells about Trump for years.
How would you remove something like this from human nature? We got to copy Canada's education system. I think if Hitler tried to win in Canada, then he would flop. I know they got free healthcare, but healthcare extends your life; you can have an extremely healthy body and still be an idiot.
->We’ve been talking about this for days now. What’s stopping you from reaching a conclusion?
I'm worried that normies might be classified as fascist. Like, a lot of people were calling Matt Walsh a fascist over him ASKING, "What is a woman?" He wasn't saying, "Murder the transgenders." He wasn't saying, "Bomb San Francisco."
He was asking a question, and people called him a fascist over him asking questions. There was this woman that thought I was a Nazi because I agreed with Israel (and I'm not talking about agreeing with Israel over Palestine, I mean giving Israel credit for building desalination plants). She was talking about desalination plants "stealing water from the fishes". If being pro desalination plants makes me a fascist, then I'm a fascist and so is virtually everybody.
The annoying thing is as much as the left wants the right to call out Nazis, virtually no left winger would call out the crazy woman who argued that desalination plants are depriving fish of their natural recourse (aka water).
->If you don’t like my definition you are free to do your own research and offer an alternative.
My definition of fascist is anyone with at least one right wing opinion (so virtually everyone would be a fascist and I'm fine with being one of them).
->That aside, fascism is explicitly a political ideology, so I don’t think religious ideology even applies.
If Donald Trump tomorrow claimed to be the 2nd coming of Jesus (and used his failed assassination attempt that hit his ear that healed pretty quickly as proof), then MAGA becomes a religion.
There are 2 types of cult leaders:
- Those that claim they are inspired by God and are his messenger. This turns into a religion (Jesus, Mohammod, Bhudda).
- Those that don't claim they are inspired by God and are his messenger. This turns into a personality fad (Napoleon, Hitler, Khan).
Religions + personality fads=Cults.
All those people that followed Beyonce; you could argue Beyonce was a personality fad, but she never ran for office. But if she did, then you know there would be a bunch of women that would stand by her no matter what (just like what you see with Trump).
-> Regardless, I wouldn’t argue that religions are not fascistic
Jesus 2000 years ago was leading the Christianity fascist cult. But he died, so his members had kids who didn't take it as seriously as they did, and you pass through several generations, being a member of the Christianity cult is something that you need clubs for.
If Trump claimed to be God, then in 200 years, maybe there will be meetings for people who follow Trumpian Christianity (and the commonalities between Trump's beliefs and Jesus's are irrelevant; the word, "Christian" is in there for marketing pourposes). Lets just say circumisision seems like a very cult like thing to do to babies.
At least Trump's cult doesn't make you bodily suffer to join. Trump's cult has open borders; anyone can join; Jesus'es cult does not.