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Zorro

(17,887 posts)
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 12:33 PM Yesterday

Yeah. It's Fascism.

We’re Gonna Call It What It Is

JD Vance is outraged. How dare some people use the term “fascist” to describe the man to whom he has pledged fealty? How dare they apply the term to the movement to which he has hitched his star?

Very few individuals have seen President Donald Trump as close-up as John F. Kelly, the retired Marine Corps general who served for nearly a year and a half as White House chief of staff during Trump’s first term.

Kelly was and is a staunch conservative. In an interview with the New York Times shortly before the 2024 election, he explained that, “In many cases, I would agree with some of his policies.”

In that same interview, Kelly was asked whether he thought Trump was a fascist. Kelly answered by reading aloud a definition of fascism that he’d found online.

https://www.thebulwark.com/i/173934603/were-gonna-call-it-what-it-is
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Yeah. It's Fascism. (Original Post) Zorro Yesterday OP
Kelly is a thickheaded conservative old fuck. But I do believe he's honest at least more than Trump. Walleye Yesterday #1

Walleye

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1. Kelly is a thickheaded conservative old fuck. But I do believe he's honest at least more than Trump.
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 12:36 PM
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