@joeinwynnewood @w7voa

I wholeheartedly disagree. As soon as you mention fascism or fascist, you've immediately lost half the country. And it looks like you're just sprouting propaganda to them.

A #ConstitutionalCrisis is a well defined term wherein the Constitution is being subverted and the powers distributed therein to the 3 branches are not functioning and being respected.

There are a lot of conservatives, libertarians, and veterans who overall tend to support Trump, but for whom the Constitution is sacrosanct. Many of them swore an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." They didn't take that oath lightly.

The more it becomes apparent that he is an enemy of the Constitution, the more likely they reassess their support for this regime. #FascistPowerGrab just pisses them off instead and is likely to reinforce their support for the regime - the exact opposite effect.

@exador23

FYI, advice from the Freedom Over Fascism messaging experts says #FascistPowerGrab is more effective framing.

See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RJWOt4cikYCUOwUN9zrphaPmaeC_YBmL-8yqlu269lc/edit?tab=t.0 for this and more.

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Fascism and the English Language

Fascism and the English Language “A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?” – Ge...

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