“Farcical Fascism is still Fascism”
by Charlie Sykes
The most interesting thing I heard this morning… as they discussed how Trump pursued ridiculous conspiracy theories on election fraud, including bizarre ideas that Italian satellites were changing Trump votes to Biden votes. Laughable of course, but there were people willing to believe, willing to pursue this and willing to be his stooges in our government for the explicit purpose of overturning a free and fair election in order to maintain power, and use violence to do so… this is fascism pure and simple. My profound fear is the next time a fascist finds his or her way to the top of our government, he or she may be more calculating and competent at manipulation of people and our government, and our democracy will die.
Fascists kill democracies. Hitler and his Brown Shirts did exactly this in Germany of the 1930’s. He came to power by taking advantage of runaway inflation, grievances and underlying racist lies. Listen to Republicans trying to deflect, using inflation in equivalency to the death of democracy!
Hitler used levers of a democratic government to rise to power and then kill the democracy to become a dictator.
More recently, in the last three decades, Putin followed the same play book successfully in Russia. Because Trump was unsuccessful and cartoonish in his approach, doesn’t make him any less of a fascist.
There is a direct line between Hitler’s Nazi’s and the MAGA crowd. If you still buy into the big lie and support the insurrection, if you still believe Trump will make America Great Again, then you are a fascist… and have no right to the term patriot.
From August 2018: