"The word is fascism. Use it to describe Trump’s regime. If it behaves like a fascist, talks like a fascist, & relies on the strategies and talking points of fascists, then it probably is the Trump Administration increasingly going fascist to stay in power."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
/25

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-word-is-fascism-use-it-to-describe

"The fact is, of course, that Trump is completely, ludicrously wrong about what’s going on in Portland. He has been for nearly a month, ever since he watched a deceptively edited Fox News segment that depicted the city as a war zone. And his advisers have apparently been complicit in his hoodwinking."

~ Dan Froomkin

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/24

https://criticalread.substack.com/p/trump-am-i-watching-things-on-television

"The strategy to crush opposition and unify power relies on a chillingly familiar playbook, one that historically leverages manufactured crises and the dehumanization of enemies. …

The evidence—from the open talk of mass detention centers for dissenters to the aggressive targeting of states and cities that oppose federal policy—compels the use of the term fascism."

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
/23

"Far from being a hyperbolic exaggeration, the systematic steps taken—from the militarization of domestic law enforcement to the explicit targeting of political dissent—mirror the alarming blueprints used by 20th-century dictators to consolidate absolute power."

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
/22

"The actions and rhetoric of the administration have prompted a dire comparison to the mechanisms of historical fascist regimes, leading many to sound the alarm on a precipitous slide toward authoritarianism."

~ Danielle Moodie

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/21

https://daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/escalating-authoritarianism

"Trump is lying about antifa to justify his authoritarian crackdown. Too easily dismissed as hyperbole, the Antifa myth is being used as a weapon to destroy domestic opposition."

~ Jeet Heer

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/20

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-antifa-portland-lies/

"Two days before next year’s midterm election will be the 50th anniversary of the New York Times’ first profile of Donald Trump.

In retrospect, it was quite an embarrassment, and it set the stage for many more embarrassments to come as lazy journalists depicted Trump as a colorful character instead of the business scammer, sex predator, and pathological liar that he is."

~ Mark Jacob

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #media #PoliticsofDistraction
/19

https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/the-medias-kissing-up-to-trump-started

"In recent days new polls from the Associated Press, Gallup, Quinnipiac, Reuters, and The Economist all show Trump’s approval rating in terrible shape. The polling averages show the same. He’s in the toilet on specific issues too: On the economy and trade he’s polling in the thirties, and he’s deeply underwater on immigration, his 'best' issue.

~ Greg Sargent

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/18

https://newrepublic.com/article/201031/trump-weak-failing-president-brutal-new-polls-confirm-it

(continued from /16)

" — a befuddled President Trump, feebly trying to square the difference between the real world reports from Orgeon’s governor on a peaceful Portland and the propaganda he’d been fed before announcing a plan to send troops to the city he described as 'War ravaged'”

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/17

“'I spoke to the governor, she was very nice. But I said, "Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening? My people tell me different." They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place … it looks like terrible.'"

~ David Kurtz

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/16

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/new-purges-continue-to-hollow-out