Levka"Seems like only yesterday when warnings that Donald Trump qualified as a neo-fascist and that what he was selling qualified as neo-fascism guaranteed rolled eyes, dismissals that the warnings were hysterical and cries of 'Trump Derangement Syndrome,' a neat little expression utilized by those who argued that the evidence in front of our faces wasn’t there.
Addressing a group of young people in 2019, Trump provided a civics lesson at sharp variance with what they had learned in school. 'I have the right to do whatever I want as president,' he told them.
It wasn’t the first time he’d claimed to have absolute power as president. '(The Constitution) allows me to do whatever I want,' he’d told ABC News earlier. Fox host Sean Hannity tried to cajole Trump into walking back his repeated vows to be the 'retribution president,' encouraging him to promise 'that you would never abuse power as retribution against anyone.' Trump declined. 'Except on day 1,' he replied.
Day 1 has lasted well into Trump’s second administration, and we ain’t seen nothing yet. We were warned about this in no uncertain terms by those in a position to know, who bluntly described Trump as a 'fascist.'
Just weeks before the 2024 election, Trump’s first chief of staff, John Kelly, told The New York Times that the word 'fascist' fit the bill. 'Looking at the definition of fascism, it’s a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism (and) forcible suppression of opposition,' the retired four-star Marine general said, breaking his silence about the president whose clinical narcissism and addiction to falsehoods Kelly had attempted to manage.
'So, certainly, in my experience, those are the kinds of things that he thinks would work better in terms of running America.' It was a measure of how obvious this had become that scant attention was paid to the disclosure that Trump had complained that he 'wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had.'
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley was even more direct, if possible. Trump, General Milley told The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, was 'fascist to the core' and 'a total fascist.'
There’s no longer any reason to tiptoe around the bush on this point. By April of this year, Americans had seen enough of the executive orders targeting law firms who’d dared to dispute Trump’s fraudulent claims that he’d won the 2020 election and the mass purge of anyone in government not prepared to buy his con-artistry to reach their conclusion.
A Public Religion Research Institute poll released that month found that 52% of Americans agreed that provided little reason to cheer. First, 44% of Americans disagreed, all evidence to the contrary. Second, with a Supreme Court and a Congress that Trump accurately assesses will do his bidding, his power has not been limited."
Slouching to dictatorship: Trump reigns, America sleepwalks
By JEFF ROBBINS Syndicated Columnist Seems like only yesterday when warnings that Donald Trump qualified as a neo-fascist and that what he was selling qualified as neo-fascism guaranteed rolled eyes, dismissals that the warnings were hysterical and cries of “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” a neat little expression utilized by those who argued that the evidence in […]
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