If Fascism is Baked in, Why Choose Fascism?

 

Q. Hearing John Kelly's disturbing revelation about Trump's admiration of Adolph H!tler, does it change how you feel about Trump?

Chris Sununu: No. We've heard a lot of extreme things from Trump. With a guy like that, it's kind of baked into the votepic.twitter.com/sMTbZicUrJ

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) October 24, 2024

So, I wanted to get this off my chest--fascism being "baked in" is the reason you REJECT a candidate, not the reason you support him. 

I might charitably presume Chris Sununu thinks this is Trump saying "extreme things" that he does not mean, and that he can differentiate the extreme things Trump says from what he intends to do, and from what those who surround him want to do. If this is how he is looking at it, he is deeply stupid, because people who support extreme words do so because they like them and want them to be so. Trump says them because he gets away with saying them and presumes that he can do what he likes later on, because he has persuaded enough people that the previously unthinkable is permissible. 

Sununu tells himself this is the direction that he believes people are going. So--he is following a multitude to do evil?  He is being a go-along-to-get along, imagining someone else will fix the problem of fascism? Or is he willing to get his hands dirty, too?

TWGB: Blame America First

 

It is impossible to overstate how despicable and dangerous Trump's demagoguery is, even if he loses again. It’s blame America first. He surpasses even the far left in calling America a bad actor, irreparably broken, a hellhole that only he can save you from. He’s the anti-Reagan. https://t.co/PT0Bdk5kho

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) September 24, 2024

It gets worse from here--Trump literally extolls the participation of Soviet Russia in WWII because he was (supposedly) talking to some rando, and literally does not know any better than to think maybe Russia wins all the wars.

Trump on Russia: Somebody told me the other day, they beat Hitler, they beat Napoleon. That's what they do. pic.twitter.com/OCvRTPvP0j

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 24, 2024

They lost the Crimean War, they lost in Afghanistan, they lost against Japan. Russia looks bigger and better than they actually are and project strength because of paranoia. Trump doesn't know anything (a hallmark of conspiracy theorists) and so falls for anything that sounds like a fact. I wonder if he got his "news" from Tucker Carlson hosting a Holocaust denier, who happens to call Churchill the villain of WWII. 

I Pray We Never Forget

 

“What the Allies did together 80 years ago, far surpassed anything we could have done on our own,” President Biden says at a D-Day commemoration ceremony in Normandy.

“Real alliances make us stronger: a lesson that I pray we Americans never forget.” https://t.co/3ePLfL4n8f pic.twitter.com/zOkxOMKI2J

— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 6, 2024

Real alliances make us stronger--do not forget who understands that and will stand against oppression and totalitarianism. Do not forget the people who are trying to make us forget--fight them, as they were fought before.