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J_William_Ryan

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2. "...many of our fellow Americans, despite their morally abysmal choice to support Trump, are not fascists."

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 02:41 PM

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Nonsense.

To support a fascist is to be a fascist; to support Trump’s fascist agenda is to support fascism.

The Trump/GOP agenda is very much consistent with the fundamental tenets of fascism, regardless how disorganized, regardless how naïve and ignorant Trump's supporters.

It’s time to stop thinking about fascism in its restrictive stereotypes: goosestepping thugs, egregious war crimes, and death camps, and instead understand that fascism is exactly what American conservativism has long become – reactionary, nativist, racist, bigoted, and hateful.

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Forget the thesaurus. Fight him on pocketbook issues dalton99a Sunday #1

"...many of our fellow Americans, despite their morally abysmal choice to support Trump, are not fascists." J_William_Ryan Sunday #2

This article is from two years ago today. subterranean Sunday #3

Thanks! Tom posted the gift link today - Bluesky post below - and I noticed the Nov.16 date, didn't look highplainsdem Sunday #4