One really violent day
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Tim Miller summarizes Donald Trump’s straight-up fascist rhetoric this weekend:
Miller worked on the McCain, Romney, and Jeb Bush presidential campaigns. He’s written a memoir about seeing the Republican party over the last decade degenerate into an authoritarian cult of personality with increasingly fascist features. Two things can be true at the same time: The pre-Trump GOP contained all the fundamental elements of Trumpism, but Trump is the catalyst that converted those elements into something far worse than what existed before.
As for Trump’s fascist rhetoric, it’s a perfect example of the media irresponsibility that Miller is calling out that, if a Democrat were to talk about how the Democratic party needed to be the vanguard of the proletariat, so that the government could seize the means of production from the capitalist class, as a way station on the path to the withering away of the state in a classless society, the media would not hesitate to label that candidate a communist, because that would sound exactly like how a communist would talk.
It’s not the slightest hyperbole to observe that Trump now talks exactly like a fascist. His rhetoric has always had elements of fascism, but he’s moved on to the uncut product, as Miller’s video linked above illustrates. If a political leader talks exactly like a fascist, that makes him a fascist, and it makes the party of which he has total unchallenged control a fascist political party.
This is where we are right now. But since fascism is not considered an acceptable ideology within the context of liberal democracy, this means that the legacy media have to either report the truth, which would automatically lead to the conclusion that the Republican party is no longer a legitimate political party in the context of acceptable political action within the context of a liberal democracy, or they have to continue to treat the Republican party as legitimate, which requires lying every day all the time about everything that is actually going on in this country.
Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
Paxton identifies five stages of fascism. We are currently in the midst of Stage Three (seizure of power). The first Trump administration was Stage Two (rooting in the political system). Five weeks from tomorrow, we could begin to enter Stage Four (exercise of power). Stage Five would be the end of America, in both senses of the word.