Eric Darnley SmallDebates over whether Trump is a fascist have centered on his lack of paramilitary support and imperial ambitions. Critics argued he lacked a street-fighting force like Mussolini’s Blackshirts and didn’t pursue global conquest, suggesting he fell short of fascist criteria. But recent events have challenged these notions, as the nation descends into chaos, highlighting the danger of underestimating the threat. The line between political extremism and fascism blurs as tensions rise. Is the real danger hiding in plain sight? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/opinion/resistance-libs-trump-fascism.html?smid=nytcore-android-share #Fascism #Trump #PoliticalExtremism #NationalChaos #Domination #HistoryRepeat #AmericanPolitics
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G K Chesterton QuotesThere is in stupidity of this sort a strange slippery strength: because it can be not only outside rules but outside reason. The man who really cannot see that he is contradicting himself has a great advantage in controversy; though the advantage breaks down when he tries to reduce it to simple addition, to chess, or to the game called war.
--#GKChesterton (1915) The Appetite of Tyranny
#Stupid #Strength #War #Controversy #Unreasonable #Contradictions #Wisdom #HistoryRepeat #Quotes
MartianmanI was going through some old boxes after my mom died last year and found a box of my dad's stuff (who died decades ago). One of them was a newspaper from right after JFK was elected--there was a front page article talking about how the Southern states decided NOT to dispute the election results and would allow JFK to be president. #ItAllBeenDoneBefore #HistoryRepeat
The rich man to-day does not only rule by using private property; he also rules by treating public property as if it were private property.
--G K Chesterton (1917) "Utopia of Users"
#Capitalism #Property #PrivateProperty #Public #Exploitation #Plutocracy #EatTheRich #History #HistoryRepeat #GKChesterton #Quotes
AiRolGIt shouldn’t be hard if it’s done correctly, lesson learnt and do differently; struggle won’t bring things back, since wrong won’t stay while right won’t leave…
#lessonLearnt #historyRepeat #doBetter #research #doItRightTheFirstTime #needSomeoneSometimes #neededBySomeoneSometimes
