Historian of Fascism Claims Trump Is Speeding Towards Dictatorship Faster Than Putin. Professor says the U.S. slide into authoritarianism is unprecedented in modern times.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/historian-of-fascism-claims-trump-is-speeding-towards-dictatorship-faster-than-putin/
30 comments
If you’re the president they let you do it!
He’s tanking the economy, threatening allies, and ignoring court orders. Seem like the day of reckoning is coming soon, maybe even within a few months from now.
Well, TBF, Putin is already there but Trump is racing to catch up.
Putin had to go slow to avoid sanctions and keep the appearance of democracy. Heck before he invaded Krim, the west still wanted Russia was to be called a democracy, because it was more comfortable. Trump doesn’t think the US needs the outside world, and he’s also too old to take it slow. What’s left of the west still wants the US to be a democracy, but that will change when Trump invades Greenland in a few weeks.
Reminder he isn’t doing it alone. All Republican representatives, majority of the supreme court and many democrats are enabling this. Even if trump is gone, America will still not “magically” revert back as they will still be in power with the support of right wing propaganda.
When you start talking about invading Canada and Greenland… Yes I think we can say we now have an American Hitler.
I blame the internet for this speed run. Everything happens faster 🫠
He could never have done it without tons of help.
Because people here are lazy, stupid, and scared and distracted.
And because Republicans are genuinely evil.
I really have no words for this anymore.
I would argue it started with the Tea Party. That was when conservatives saw the total failure of Bush not as a flaw of conservatism, but rather a mistake of conservatism having any respect for liberal democracy. That’s when the GOP began openly promoting they wanted the president to fail, where Party over Country first became an semi-official platform.
Then, the stacking of SCOTUS required the GOP to officially endorse hypocrisy as well. I mean all politicians are hypocrites but I’m not sure history has a bolder example of an American party swearing by one principle just to swear by the opposite a few years later.
By Trump’s first term, Republicans in Congress who spent six years condemning a security breach that left a handful of people dead in an embassy in one of the most dangerous parts of the world, suddenly refuse to convict on an impeachment of their own guy no matter what.
Then followed the Republican courts, which spent the entire Biden Admin plainly striking down laws based on what letter is in parentheses next to the name of who signed it.
Someone needs to step up and do the right thing.
The speed is why it will almost assuredly fail. There are other reasons it will fail, but his haste will seal his fate.
But civil society is not the same in the US and in Russia. The damage is substantial, but the US will resist.
It’s time to stop calling these Trump policies. Trump is the useful idiot puppet of the “deep state” Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation who have managed to buy out the Republican Party by funneling tax cuts to create the billionaire oligarchy class.
I get why guilt by association is a dangerous thing, but they’re running the Project 2025 anti-constitution playbook that they published.
How do we convince all the people who have taken their oaths that these are domestic (and international) enemies of the constitution?
Unprecedented if you forget about the last 60 years. The Republican Party has been planning this since the Nixon administration. It’s nothing new.
The speed feels so fast because America already voted in a majority of Congress that supports it. They have multiple propaganda news stations and radio stations.
So the current speed is fast, but the preparation was very long term
With little to no resistance because we expect decent leadership in the U.S. this is fucked. I hope he develops insomnia.
shove the pessimism up your ass because THAT is what rolling over is. Keep marching, keep working, keep believing. No one here is twiddling their thumbs. No one here is ‘hoping for the best’. We are a big ass country with a lot of people. A fuck ton of idiots but even more individuals who are rapidly developing class consciousness. I believe in us.
sincerely,
a transgender latino.
We have an entirely defective Senate and House of representatives.
If they actually cared about this country, they would have impeached him twice on his first term.
If they actually cared about this country, he would have been impeached again after the first month.
THEY DONT CARE ABOUT THIS COUNTRY.
We need to ELIMINATE THE ENTIRE PARTY SYSTEM. ITS HURTING US.
The problem is that we’re just pretending the Republican party hasn’t been moving the country towards fascism for at least the last 25 years.
Fascism is in its endgame and too many are still blinding themselves to reality.
I wonder when people will start blaming “the people following these executive orders”
Trump is a buffoon but those who adhere to these executive orders like they are law are criminals and traitors to the constitution and are ushering in the seizure of power by the executive branch.
Why can’t the supreme court arrest those that are directly violating individual rights? If Pam Bondi has instructed people to follow the executive orders in violation of the constitution then what happens?
Why is this being blamed on just Trump. Its his cabinet and the those sucking on the autocratic power Teet.
Closing universities and opening prisons
“Why didn’t the Germans do anything about Hitler”
It’s almost like 80 million people are accepting it with open arms.
Remove it from life. The Rapist Idiot doesn’t deserve human status
Faster because MAGA/GOP are stepping aside to let it be.
And none of this would have been possible without a complicit Republican majority who’s fine with letting this happen.
Fascism appeals to the simple mind that desires order, needs direction and happily blames everyone else for their own failures in life. Sound like anyone we know? Like 30% of the American population. If not more.
Democracy as I have known it in America is over. When.I talk with young people about it, they do not get it. Perhaps, I am wrong, but the trend seems obvious.
My entire life I’ve grown up in the shadow of the US here in Canada. It’s nearly impossible to escape the media, and the bravado, nationalism, and American exceptionalism of the US is palpable and always has been. It’s annoying at times, actually fucking hilarious at times, and now… disappointing. Through American media, either passively or aggressively, we’ve been assured, beyond a doubt, that Americans will not suffer tyranny and they have a whole amendment to their constitution that ensures they are armed and ready to fight back.
And then voted in a fascist. What a fucking shame.
Comments are closed.