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Originally Posted by einbert
Shame Trolly,
Again I refer you to points 1 and 2...
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Fascism...
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4. Militant anti-Communism...
Yeah, maybe I should have referred you to point 4.
The word you could have used was 'Authoritarian'. Authoritarianism could be said to not be a thing of the left or right, and D.Trump's spew has strong similarities to historical authoritarians.
But you didn't, you chose the word 'fascist' instead.
But, realize you're making up your own definition. In common parlance, the USSR wasn't facist. If you were taking AP history, and you identified the eastern front of WW2 as a fascist -vs- fascist conflict, you're getting zero credit. The Cold War wasn't said to be capitalism -vs- fascism. No reputable academic classes the USSR as fascist. Including the dude you quoted yourself. Etc, etc, etc.
Now, I can't read your "secret inner heart", but my spidey sense is telling me that (a) you feel the word 'fascist' punches more propogandic punch, (b) you like calling Trump a fascist, and (c) you just like saying the word fascist.
But, I think you're actually shooting yourself in the foot. For two reasons: (1) you lose credibility when you start making up your own words like that, and (2) Trump is most certainly a thing of the right, the regimes of B.Mussolini, F.Franco, etc were most certainly things of the right. As propaganda, you should want to assert and highlight this similarity, not deny and ignore it.